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Anna Wiener New Yorker Dec 2020 20min Permalink
At The New York Times, a reckoning.
Reeves Wiedeman New York Nov 2020 25min Permalink
Black women have been telling the truth about America for a long time. As a Black woman in journalism, my obligation is no less than that.
No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists.
Daniel Tovrov Columbia Journalism Review Oct 2019 15min Permalink
In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.
A.G. Sulzberger The New York Times Sep 2019 15min Permalink
At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Sep 1998 30min Permalink
Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.
Maxwell Strachan Huffington Post Jul 2019 30min Permalink
An Indian-American journalist navigates racism in the midst of a crime investigation.
Chaya Bhuvaneswar Barrelhouse Jun 2019 10min Permalink
What the author learned about himself from Jill Abramson’s Merchants of Truth.
Thomas Morton Medium Jan 2019 Permalink
A maverick war correspondent, Hemingway’s third wife was the only woman at D-Day and saw the liberation of Dachau. Her husband wanted her home in his bed.
Paula McLain Town & Country Jul 2018 15min Permalink
The original writer of the Village Voice story that inspired “Boys Don’t Cry” looks back on her reporting—and the huge error she still regrets.
Donna Minkowitz Village Voice Jun 2018 20min Permalink
How a journalist who wrote a seminal account of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark wound up on the wrong side of the law.
Greg Donahue The Atavist Magazine Mar 2018 1h Permalink
Note From the Editors: As we were reporting this story, Newsweek Media Group fired Newsweek Editor Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li and Senior Politics Reporter Celeste Katz for doing their jobs. Reporters Josh Keefe and Josh Saul were targeted for firing before an editor persuaded the company to reverse its decision. As we continued working on the story, we were asked to take part in a review process, which, we ultimately learned, involved egregious breaches of confidentiality and journalism ethics.
Saul is a Longform contributing editor.
Celeste Katz, Josh Keefe, Josh Saul Newsweek Feb 2018 10min Permalink
Life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror.
James Risen The Intercept Jan 2018 1h5min Permalink
How one of the world’s top conductors became ensnared in a WWI-era scandal.
Neil Swidey Boston Globe Nov 2017 40min Permalink
For 60 years, the weekly Evening Whirl attacked the drug lords, whoring preachers, and hypocritical bourgeoisie of St. Louis’ black community, sometimes in rhyming Iambic couplets.
Scott Eden The Believer Nov 2006 25min Permalink
How Warren Hinckle and Ramparts magazine helped revive muckraking journalism and launch the New Left.
Peter Collier The New Criterion Oct 2016 Permalink
A young journalist spent her days covering sexual assault and domestic violence. Then she became the story.
Lisa Gregoire Eighteen Bridges Dec 2015 20min Permalink
What it means when an investigative reporter’s undercover work is framed as a personal journey.
Suki Kim The New Republic Jun 2016 10min Permalink
The story of freelance journalist Anna Therese Day.
Gail Sheehy Jezebel Feb 2016 20min Permalink
The real story of a fabricator.
Doyle Murphy Riverfront Times Feb 2016 20min Permalink
Five Vietnamese-American journalists were killed on American soil between 1981 and 1990. The prime suspects? Members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, a group of former military commanders from South Vietnam.
A.C. Thompson ProPublica Nov 2015 1h Permalink
While a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, Austin Tice decided he wanted to become a war photographer. He entered Syria and filed stories for McClatchy and the Washington Post. Then he disappeared.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Oct 2015 35min Permalink
Confessions of a presidential campaign reporter.
Michael Hastings GQ Oct 2008 20min Permalink
A journalist and documentarian charts over a decade of her relationship with Philip Roth.
Livia Manera Sambuy The Believer Jan 2015 20min Permalink