NBC hindered Ronan Farrow's investigation into Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct, a producer who worked closely with Farrow told the New York Times on Thursday. The producer, Rich McHugh, recently left his job at NBC News and told the Times that the network attempted to stop Farrow's reporting, and the orders came from "the very highest levels of NBC." McHugh called the incident "a massive breach of journalistic integrity." Farrow had been working for months on the story for NBC News, which eventually said it was not air-worthy. Farrow then took the story to The New Yorker magazine, where it won the Pulitzer Price for public service and led to criminal charges against Weinstein. Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News, denied McHugh's accusations, telling the Times "He was never told to stop in the way he's implying." Farrow's report did not pass muster with NBC because at the time it lacked "at least one credible on-the-record victim or witness of misconduct," he said. NBC is a unit of Comcast Corp. CMCSA, +0.98%