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Whistleblower

‘I Helped Destroy People’

Terry Albury, an idealistic F.B.I. agent, grew so disillusioned by the war on terror that he was willing to leak classified documents—and go to prison for doing it.

Janet Reitman New York Times Magazine Aug 2021 50min Permalink

Business Crime Health

The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing

Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Jan 2019 35min Permalink

Business

Inhuman Resources

Mike Picarella wanted to protect a co-worker from humiliating sexual harassment. He didn’t expect his own life to be destroyed in the process.

David Dayen Highline Jul 2018 40min Permalink

World

The Mystery of the Exiled Billionaire Whistleblower

From a penthouse on Central Park, Guo Wengui has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China’s ruling elite — if, that is, he’s telling the truth.

Lauren Hilgers New York Times Magazine Jan 2018 20min Permalink

Private Manning and the Making of WikiLeaks

The definitive biographical portrait of a whistleblower.

Denver Nicks This Land Sep 2010 20min Permalink

Best Article Arts Movies & TV

Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood

Oliver Stone wanted a hit—and the chance to put America’s most iconic dissident onscreen. The subject wanted veto power. The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written. The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away. Somehow a film got made.

Irina Aleksander New York Times Magazine Aug 2016 30min Permalink

Business

How General Motors Silenced a Whistle-Blower

Courtland Kelley knew there was a problem more than a decade ago. He tried to speak up. He sued. He lost.

Tim Higgins, Nick Summers Businessweek Jun 2014 15min Permalink

Politics World

The Men Who Leaked the Secrets

The twisting paths that brought together Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald.

Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Dec 2013 45min Permalink

Science

Uprising

An unlikely environmentalist exposes the natural gas industry’s leaky infrastructure.

Phil McKenna Matter Nov 2013 25min Permalink

Politics Media

Enemy of the State

A visit to Glenn Greenwald’s house in Rio.

Natasha Vargas-Cooper The Advocate Oct 2013 20min Permalink

Business Crime

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The story of a tobacco industry whistleblower.

Marie Brenner Vanity Fair May 1996 1h15min Permalink

Science

The Whistleblower

Enbridge, Inc. spilled more than a million gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River. Was John Bolenbaugh fired for refusing to cover this up?

  1. Part 1: Oil, Lies, and Videotape

  2. Part 2: Buried Secrets

  3. Part 3: Quest for Redemption

Ted Genoways OnEarth Apr 2012 55min Permalink