Ghostwriting
On the invisible labor that makes media work.
On the invisible labor that makes media work.
Alex Sujong Laughlin Study Hall Oct 2021 25min Permalink
We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone.
Elaine Godfrey The Atlantic Oct 2021 15min Permalink
While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time.
Will Oremus OneZero Jan 2021 15min Permalink
The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging?
Brent Cunningham Pacific Standard Jul 2019 25min Permalink
Young sisters, an old newspaper, and notions of time.
Nicole Simonsen Necessary Fiction Apr 2019 Permalink
The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.
Zach Baron GQ Dec 2018 25min Permalink
Can local news survive?
Henri Gendreau Wired Nov 2017 20min Permalink
Twenty years later, looking back at an infamous paragraph.
Jeff Pearlman Deadspin Aug 2017 20min Permalink
They’re friends who once vied for the same jobs. Now, as editors of The New York Times and The Washington Post, they’re locked in a daily battle for Trump scoops.
Joe Pompeo Politico Jun 2017 35min Permalink
The former editor of the New York Observer, profiled.
Nathan Heller The New Republic Sep 2012 25min Permalink
A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.
Tom Bartlett Washingtonian Dec 2011 20min Permalink
Tom Wolfe on the development of ”New Journalism,” an unconventional reporting style which he helped to pioneer.
I had the feeling, rightly or wrongly, that I was doing things no one had ever done before in journalism. I used to try to imagine the feeling readers must have had upon finding all this carrying on and cutting up in a Sunday supplement. I liked that idea. I had no sense of being a part of any normal journalistic or literary environment.
How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.
Alex Pappademas GQ May 2010 Permalink