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Publications

Buzzfeed

Crime Science

A Brutal Inheritance

His DNA solved a century-old jailhouse rape. The victim: his grandmother.

Virginia Hughes Buzzfeed Jun 2019 20min Permalink

Health

Unlimited Power

A yearlong investigation by BuzzFeed News, based on leaked recordings, internal documents, and dozens of interviews with fans and insiders, reveals how Robbins has berated abuse victims and subjected his followers to unorthodox and potentially dangerous techniques. And former female fans and staffers have accused him of inappropriate sexual advances.

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Katie J.M. Baker on the Longform Podcast

Jane Bradley, Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed May 2019 Permalink

Arts

America's Hardest-Working Know-It-All

A profile of Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings.

Kevin Lincoln Buzzfeed Feb 2013 15min Permalink

Movies & TV

“Fixer Upper” Is Over, But Waco’s Transformation Is Just Beginning

How HGTV changed a city.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Apr 2019 35min Permalink

Politics

'Everyone Wants to Find a Villain'

What happened when Pete Buttigieg tore down houses in Black and Latino South Bend.

Henry J. Gomez Buzzfeed Apr 2019 30min Permalink

The Baraboo Nazi Prom Photo Shocked The World. The City’s Response Shocked Its Residents.

“Stupid kids doing something stupid, simple as that. This is how many people in Baraboo remembered the whole ordeal to me four months later. What almost no one in town seemed interested in asking was, ‘Why were our kids stupid in this particular way?’”

Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Apr 2019 35min Permalink

World

WWF's Secret War

How anti-poaching funds end up in the hands of vicious paramilitaries.

  1. WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People

  2. Internal Report Shows WWF Was Warned Years Ago Of “Frightening” Abuses

  3. WWF Says Indigenous People Want This Park. An Internal Report Says Some Fear Forest Ranger “Repression.”

Tom Warren, Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Mar 2019 Permalink

Here’s Why So Many Americans Feel Cheated By Their Student Loans

A social and financial divide is forming—between those who have student debt, and those who do not—that will have ramifications for decades to come.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Feb 2019 35min Permalink

Crime Tech

“Down the Rabbit Hole I Go”

Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.

Davey Alba, Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Feb 2019 30min Permalink

Business

How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

“We are beginning to understand what ails us, and it’s not something an oxygen facial or a treadmill desk can fix.”

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Jan 2019 30min Permalink

Tech

The Rise, Lean, And Fall Of Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg

The reality of Silicon Valley is that it’s commerce by any means necessary. And the reality of Sandberg is that she’s excellent at it.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Dec 2018 25min Permalink

Crime Politics

The Unsatisfying Truth About Hateful Online Rhetoric and Violence

Two angry men submerged themselves in the far-right internet. One committed murder. The other walked away. Why?

Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Crime Religion

The Ghosts of the Orphanage

Millions of American children were placed in the Catholic orphanage system. Some didn’t make it out alive.

Christine Kenneally Buzzfeed Aug 2018 1h50min Permalink

Politics

The Texas Swing

On the trail in Texas with Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Aug 2018 30min Permalink

Crime Tech

Lane Davis's Civil War

He was a far-right, pro-Trump media figure looking for his big break. Then Lane Davis stabbed his father to death.

Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Jul 2018 25min Permalink

Politics

Planting the Seed

On millionaire Forrest Lucas and his propaganda machine.

Anne Helen Petersen, Ken Bensinger, Salvador Hernandez Buzzfeed Jul 2018 30min Permalink

Sports

Double Crossed

The rise and fall of CrossFit’s science crusader.

Stephanie M. Lee Buzzfeed Jun 2018 20min Permalink

Music

Neko Case Is Telling The Truth

The singer is more uncompromising than ever.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Jun 2018 20min Permalink

Politics

The 9 Minutes that Almost Changed America

How the Congressional baseball shooting didn’t become the deadliest political assassination in American history.

Kate Nocera, Lissandra Villa Buzzfeed May 2018 30min Permalink

Crime

"I Killed Them All"

The life of one of America’s bloodiest hitmen.

Jessica Garrison Buzzfeed May 2018 50min Permalink

Movies & TV

How Hollywood Failed Brad Renfro

Studios want to hire kids with genuine depth, but the system in place to protect child actors isn’t equipped if their lives go perilously downhill.

Adam B. Vary Buzzfeed May 2018 Permalink

General Steve

A former US Army officer is now a general for a country accused of war crimes.

Aram Roston Buzzfeed May 2018 15min Permalink

History World Media

This Is What It Was Like Learning to Report Before Fake News Was the Biggest Problem in the World

“As a young reporter in Eastern Europe in 2001, I expected to witness the ‘end of history’ and the flowering of democracy. That was just one of the mistakes I made.”

Ben Smith Buzzfeed Apr 2018 15min Permalink

Arts Media

How Joan Didion Became Joan Didion

“Didion was one of the boys, clearly, in the sense that men had noticed her writing and wanted to publish her. But she also couldn’t quite fit into their regime.”

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Excerpted from Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Michelle Dean Buzzfeed Mar 2018 20min Permalink

Politics

Democrats Know Hackers Will Be Back In 2018

Does anyone care?

Ruby Cramer, Kevin Collier Buzzfeed Mar 2018 10min Permalink

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