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Publications

New York Times

Business

A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web

DecorMyEyes is a online eyewear store with an unusual business plan; the owner harasses and intimidates customers who complain in order to get negative reviews posted across the web, in turn making his website more visible to Google searchers.

David Segal New York Times Nov 2010 Permalink

Politics

Leaked Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy

The latest WikiLeaks unveiling has exposed more than 250,000 sensitive messages from American diplomats. Among the revelations: the plan for a unified Korea, the Chinese government’s hacking strategy, and negotiations with countries for housing Gitmo detainees.

Andrew W. Lehren, Scott Shane New York Times Nov 2010 15min Permalink

Arts Music

“I’d Like to Be Trusted Again.”

A profile of of Courtney Love.

Eric Wilson New York Times Nov 2010 Permalink

Business Crime

Fast Money, Secret Lives

In an elaborate FBI sting to expose corruption, four agents pose as futures traders in Chicago. The plan works–if you don’t count the hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars the agents lost in the process.

Eric N. Berg New York Times Jan 1989 10min Permalink

Sex

Through His Webcam...

A 13 year old gets a webcam and starts doing dirty shows online, ending up running a smut business in Mexico with his deadbeat father.

Kurt Eichenwald New York Times Dec 2005 Permalink

Correcting the Record

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

- New York Times May 2003 30min Permalink

The War Logs: View is Bleaker…

Selections from the leaked documents about the war in Afghanistan portray a military effort that is ineffective and frequently absurd. (Part of the NYT War Logs series.)

C. J. Chivers, Carlotta Gall, Andrew W. Lehren, Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, Eric Schmitt, Jacob Harris, Alan McLean New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink

Science

Following a Script to Escape a Nightmare

An emerging school of therapy says that scripting your dreams while awake could eliminate the worst ones. Not everyone thinks that’s healthy.

Sarah Kershaw New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink

Best Article Arts History Music

The Stories of One Brooklyn Block

Vignettes of the residents of South Elliot Place.

Stacy Abramson New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink

Best Article

24-Hour Cycle

A day in the life of a Brooklyn laundromat.

N. R. Kleinfield New York Times Jan 2010 10min Permalink

Arts Crime History

The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel

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.”

George Plimpton, Truman Capote New York Times Jan 1966 35min Permalink

Crime Religion

The Son of Sam’s Social Life

Admiring evangelicals are helping David Berkowitz, the imprisoned serial killer who murdered six people in NYC during the summer of 1977, with an unusual image makeover.

Serge F. Kovaleski New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink

Arts History

David Mitchell Bends Fiction

A interview with David Mitchell, author of the recent The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Cloud Atlas, on stretching a fictional universe across multiple novels and centuries of real history.

Wyatt Mason New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink

Best Article Arts Food

Some Things Never Die

Race relations at the gigantic and soul-crushing Smithfield slaughterhouse, where annual turnover is 100 percent: 5,000 people are hired, 5,000 quit.

Charlie LeDuff New York Times Jun 2000 25min Permalink

History Science

The Anosognosic’s Dilemma (Parts 1-5)

Through a series of interviews and historical inquiries, Errol Morris dissects Anosognosia, “a condition in which a person who suffers from a disability seems unaware of or denies the existence of his or her disability.”

Errol Morris New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink

Best Article

Running Away

April Savino, a teenage homeless runaway, lived in Grand Central Terminal from 1984 until 1987 when she committed suicide on the steps of a nearby church.

Dennis Hevesi New York Times Oct 1988 20min Permalink

Arts

The Holy Grail of the Unconscious

Jung’s ‘Red Book’, a secret journal of dreams and drawings, has been in a Swiss vault for the better part of a century. The burden of its care has fallen on his descendants, who have reluctantly allowed it to be published.

Sara Corbett New York Times Sep 2009 Permalink

Best Article

That Which Does Not Kill Me...

Inside the twisted, half-conscious world of Jure Robic, the Slovene soldier who might be the world’s best ultra-endurance athlete.

Daniel Coyle New York Times Feb 2006 Permalink

Arts World Music

Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord

Karaoke renditions of ‘My Way’ have led to murders in the Phillipines.

Norimitsu Onishi New York Times Feb 2006 Permalink

A Patel Motel Cartel?

How Indians with the surname Patel came to own 1/3 of the motels in America.

Tunku Varadarajan New York Times Jul 1999 15min Permalink

Sex

Sex Shops Survive a Cleanup

Rudy Giuliani’s crackdown on the New York City sex industry was supposed to be a cornerstone of his legacy. Then smut shops and strip clubs read the ordinance’s fine print.

Dan Barry New York Times Jan 2001 Permalink

Business

Building a Green Economy

Paul Krugman breaks down the basics of climate change economics, from Arthur Cecil Pigou to Capitol Hill.

Paul Krugman New York Times Apr 2010 20min Permalink

Making It Look Easy at the New Yorker

David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, has written a new Obama biography expected to be a best-seller. His frugal streak has kept his staff intact. And yet, after a dozen years, he’s still the new guy at Condé Nast.

Stephanie Clifford New York Times Apr 2010 Permalink

Crime

A Thief Dines Out, Hoping Later to Eat In

For Gangaram Mahes, Rikers Island was the only chance for three squares and a “decent life.” So Mahes committed the same crime 31 straight times: refusing to pay the check at New York City restaurants.

Rick Bragg New York Times May 1994 Permalink

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