The backstory on Julian Assange’s relationship with the Guardian and the New York Times.

A profile of Esquire features writer Chris Jones. Plus: the Jones archive on Longform.org.

A veteran black Metro columnist, adrift in a rapidly shifting D.C., rankles an incoming generation of gentrificationists.

The article that spawned a school of thought; an elegy for the age of the megahit and a primer for the niche-based future.

A profile of Anas Aremeyaw, an investigative journalist in Ghana who’s willing to do anything–and pose as anyone–to get the story.

The managing editor’s suicide has received extensive press coverage, in part because the story appeared to be a relatively simple one: his boss was a bully. It was more complicated than that.

In the last decade, newsrooms across the country have adopted a “do more with less” strategy. It’s a kamikaze mission.

The sordid, petty world of “gossip item” sources for the New York Post and The Daily News, and what happens when they go bad.

Tabloid newspapers were caught hacking into the voicemails of Prince William and Prince Harry. One reporter was arrested - but an investigation shows the eavesdropping was far more elaborate and widespread.

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

Scott Dadich, 34, has been described by a former boss as a “combination of Pelé and Jesus” and is now tasked with figuring out the future of the magazine. All he’s got in his new Times Square office: an iPad and a book of George Lois’ Esquire covers.

Evidence of a decades-old hotel trist with a teenage intern costs a beloved Chicago columnist his job - and his identity.

Seventeen years after taking the iconic “Afghan Girl” photograph for National Geographic, Steve McCurry went back to find her.

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.”

On September 28, 1980, the Washington Post published a story by an ambitious young reporter about an 8-year-old boy addicted to heroin. The story won a Pulitzer. The boy didn’t exist.

An interview with Clay Shirky on “why no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”

Detroit is dying. But it’s not dead yet. Just ask Charlie LeDuff.

“But the journalism itself is not free. It can’t be free. And if it is free, it’s not going to be very good.”

The rise and fall of The Exile, Russia’s angriest English-language newspaper.

How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.

A young journalist’s low-paid odyssey through publications from the Hong Kong iMail to Gawker adrift in the “nothing-based economy.”

Yeah, you’ve seen that headline before. The difference? This time it’s not journalists trying to do the saving. It’s Google.

The editors of N+1 recap the revolution that is/was the internet with pit-stops to survey the Bolshevik Revolution, the NYT’s messy relationship with tech, and the value of an ad.

Murderous editors, allegations of insanity, connections to the Church of Satan, illegal predatory-pricing schemes, and more than $21 million on the line—the crazy alt-weekly war in San Francisco has it all.

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.