Rich McHugh is a correspondent for NewsNation.
Since joining the network in 2020, he has focused on corporate malfeasance and controversial subjects like sexual assault in our military, transgender health care for minors and issues related to race and head trauma in the NFL.
As an investigative journalist with over 20 years’ experience in network television news and production, he has contributed to Business Insider, The Daily Beast, and Vanity Fair.
Prior to NewsNation, he served as a Supervising Producer in the NBC News Investigative Unit, where he and correspondent Ronan Farrow spent a year investigating sexual misconduct allegations against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. After their investigation was shut down at NBC, it was published in The New Yorker and won a Pulitzer Prize. The magazine article has been widely credited as a catalyst for the #MeToo movement.
As a contributor to Vanity Fair, McHugh published “You are to Stand Down,” his personal account of how NBC killed its Weinstein story, and “An Oral History Of A Predator” — interviews with 30 Weinstein accusers.
He is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow award and five Emmys for his work in journalism.
