Media

Monday, July 26

Seventeen years after taking the iconic “Afghan Girl” photograph for National Geographic, Steve McCurry went back to find her.


Friday, July 16
/ / Feb 2005

A war correspondent decides to rent a house in Baghdad to save money. Complications ensue.


Thursday, July 15

In January 1966–the same month In Cold Blood was first published–Truman Capote sat down with George Plimpton to discuss the new art form he liked to call “creative journalism.”


Monday, July 12

On September 28, 1980, the Washington Post published a story by an ambitious young reporter about an 8-year-old boy addicted to heroin. The story won a Pulitzer. The boy didn’t exist.


Friday, July 9

An interview with Clay Shirky on “why no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”


Thursday, July 8
/ / Oct 2008
via via @saxcodger

The nihilistic confessions of a presidential campaign reporter who covered Giuliani, Huckabee, and Clinton for Newsweek—and who last month wrote the RS story that took down Gen. Stanley McChrystal.


Tuesday, July 6

Detroit is dying. But it’s not dead yet. Just ask Charlie LeDuff.


Monday, June 28
/ / Jun 2010

Saad Mohseni, Afghanistan’s first media mogul and a business partner of Rupert Murdoch, produces everything from nightly news broadcasts to the controversial Afghan version of American Idol.


Tuesday, June 22
/ / Jun 2010

Is Mike Huckabee the GOP’s best hope in 2012? Mike Huckabee’s not so sure.


Wednesday, June 16
/ / Jan 2010

Why don’t TV weathermen believe in climate change?


Monday, June 14

“But the journalism itself is not free. It can’t be free. And if it is free, it’s not going to be very good.”


Wednesday, June 9

How a French journalist recruited a posse of Brazilian parking lot attendants and pizza-delivery guys and created Hollywood’s most addictive entertainment product.