Shame and Survival
An essay on life as “the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet.”
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How to Lose $100 Million
The undoing of Tina Brown.
Blow Up the Box
An interview with Barry Diller about Aereo and the past, present and future of TV.
Previously: Vanessa Grigoriadis on the Longform Podcast.
Where the Wild Things Go Viral
Inside BuzzFeed’s adorable animal machine.
Playboy Interview: Gawker's Nick Denton
PLAYBOY: Is it possible you set a lower value on privacy than most people do?
DENTON: I don't think people give a fuck, actually.
What Grantland Got Wrong
On the problems in “Dr. V’s Magical Putter.”
Is This Thing On?
Why audio never goes viral.
All the News That’s Fit to Print Out
On the volunteer “Wikipedians” who devote their free time to editing Wikipedia.
On the Ground With Syria's News Smugglers
How citizen journalists are covering the war.
The Real Story of Lavabit's Founder
Meet Ladar Levison, Edward Snowden’s email provider.
MediaTakeout: Fear of a Black TMZ
The story of mediatakeout.com, a gossip site with a monthly audience of 16 million and a loose relationship with the truth.
Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?
The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.
Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire
The long, strange trip of the Wikipedia founder, who went from being an Insane Clown Posse fan who owned the “Bomis Babe Report” to a jet-setter married to “the most connected woman in London,” all without turning much of a profit.
How Glenn Greenwald Became Glenn Greenwald
“Before Glenn Greenwald was the journalist who broke and defended the most important story of 2013, he was many other things: an underage South Florida politician, a lawyer at a high-powered corporate firm, Kips Bay’s most combative tenant, and even the legal arm of his business partner’s gay porn distribution company.”
I Was Paid $12.50 an Hour to Write This Story
The economics of freelance journalism in 2013.
A Convenient Excuse
On the media’s failure to cover climate change.
The Bad-Boy Brand
The past, present, and increasingly optimistic future of Vice.
Journalistic Standards in Reporting of the Te'o Hoax: Q&A with Deadspin's Tommy Craggs
A lesson in ethics.
The Princess and the Trolls
How Adalia Rose, a six-year-old with an early-aging disorder called progeria, became both an Internet celebrity and the target of online vitriol.
What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
An internet pioneer loses hope in the promise of web culture.
Come On, Feel the Buzz
On Politico’s brand of insider journalism.
Slash and Burn
The rise of One Direction fanfiction that imagines the band members in relationships – with each other.
Proust Wasn’t a Neuroscientist. Neither Was Jonah Lehrer.
The allure of conclusion-shaping and a wunderkind’s fall.
Inside the Mansion -- and Mind -- of Kim Dotcom, the Most Wanted Man on the Net
The strange existence of the accused Internet pirate as he battles the U.S. government.
Why Is This Man Running For President Of The Internet?
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.
