A profile of Eliot Higgins, whose blog, Brown Moses, has become required reading at intelligence agencies, human rights organizations, and news outlets around the world.
Tucker Carlson: The bow-tie is gone, but the moxie remains.
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A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”
On the adultery website AshleyMadison.com.
Mike Bloomberg goes back to work.
A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.
A trip to the writers’ room of The Onion spinoff, which started as a BuzzFeed parody but has morphed into something else: “the institutional voice of the Internet.”
On Kendall Jenner, public versus private lives, and the American Dream.
“Okay,” I said. “What do you think is the percentage chance that I’m right?”
“I don’t know,” she said. “Five percent?”
Merriam-Webster is revising its most authoritative tome for the digital age. But in an era of twerking and trolling, what should a dictionary look like?
Exploring the darkest corridors of the Internet.
Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?
How a young entrepreneur built a media empire by repackaging memes.
The untold story of the world’s most infamous sex tape, and how the Internet spread it faster than anyone expected.
The mainstreaming of livestreaming.
Don’t read the comments.
The story, so far, of First Look Media.
He has a staff of 300. His website gets more traffic than Gawker and has 300,000 paying subscribers. He has a clothing line, a string of bestselling books, a movie studio and a radio show syndicated on 400 stations. A profile of Glenn Beck, mogul.
A 9-part series on the past, present and future of the BBC.
Established media companies used to sue YouTube. Now they’re betting on it.
Bryan Goldberg’s site for women was widely mocked when it launched a year ago. Today it has 15 million readers per month and some of its harshest early critics are on the payroll.
How a lawyer from the Valley created a gossip empire.
When a child has a condition that’s new to science.
A profile of Model View Culture founder Shanley Kane.
A profile of reporter Jason Leopold, who has reinvented himself after journalistic scandal by becoming what he calls a “FOIA terrorist.”
