The strange saga of Sarah Phillips, who went from message board commenter to ESPN gambling columnist and hid her identity from editors, scamming many of the people she met along the way.

The story of the Huffington Post.

On the ever-expanding world of targeted online advertising.

On the adultery website AshleyMadison.com.

A fifteen year history of the music site Pitchfork detailing its prescient take on the relationship between culture and consumption.

The Starbucks-fueled saga of how Jim Romenesko, beloved journalism blogger, took an early retirement.

Nine months after the AOL merger, here’s a progress report.

On the TechCrunch founder’s venture capital fund, and a new breed of startup investor.

As Twitter-loving VC investors have become brand names themselves (Fred Wilson, Marc Andreessen, Chris Sacca), what one might call the auteur theory of venture capitalism has emerged—the idea that startup companies bear the unique creative signature of those who invested in them. To study a venture capitalist’s portfolio is to study his oeuvre.

“Here is what Jack Shafer is,” says Erik Wemple, who blogs about the media for washingtonpost.com. “Obviously, very talented, tremendously original and highly informed. But more important, he is utterly uncorrupted by friendship, money, power, anything. He is ruthless with people he doesn’t know, but what is impressive is how ruthless he can be with the people he knows. He’s impervious to outside influence, and it’s a glorious thing to watch.”

Tucker Carlson: The bow-tie is gone, but the moxie remains.

A profile of the founding editor of Radar and current editor of The Fix, penned by a former employee.