A history of The New Yorker and its editors, from founder Harold Ross through Tina Brown.

A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.

Caitlin Curran was fired from WNYC for attending an Occupy Wall Street protest. The author explains why her boss was wrong.

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

Though I will make the trip up the elevator to Janet Malcolm’s stately town-house apartment, overlooking Gramercy Park, three times in the course of this unusual interview, the substance of our exchange will take place by ­e-mail, over three and a half months.

The reason for this is that Janet Malcolm is more naturally the describer than the described. It is nearly impossible to imagine the masterful interviewer chatting unguardedly into a tape recorder, and indeed she prefers not to imagine it. She has agreed to do the interview but only by e-mail: in this way she has politely refused the role of subject and reverted to the more comfortable role of writer. She will be writing her answers — and, to be honest, tinkering gently with the phrasing of some of my questions.

Inside the complicated world of running The New York Times.

The story of three months spent training reporters in Saudi Arabia, where the press is far from free. “I suspected that behind the closed gates of Saudi society there was a social revolution in the making. With some guidance, I thought, these journalists could help inspire change.”

At 25, Stephen Glass was a reporter wunderkind, regularly filing incredible pieces for the largest magazines. When suspicion fell on his sources, things started to really get strange. It wasn’t just sources and organizations he was inventing, but whole stories.

A profile of Anas Aremeyaw, an investigative journalist in Ghana who’s willing to do anything–and pose as anyone–to get the story.

Michael Lewis goes undercover at Columbia.

In the last decade, newsrooms across the country have adopted a “do more with less” strategy. It’s a kamikaze mission.

For sixty years, the weekly Evening Whirl attacked the drug lords, whoring preachers, and hypocritical bourgeoisie of St. Louis’ black community, sometimes in rhyming Iambic couplets.

The New York Times reveals the deception of 27-year-old reporter Jayson Blair.

The backstory of the publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan logs.

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

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.

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.

The rise and fall of The Exile, Russia’s angriest English-language newspaper.

How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.

A young journalist’s low-paid odyssey through publications from the Hong Kong iMail to Gawker adrift in the “nothing-based economy.”

Yeah, you’ve seen that headline before. The difference? This time it’s not journalists trying to do the saving. It’s Google.