Anchorman: The Legend of Don Lemon
He leans in, big warm smile, not wanting to correct me, but needing to: “Sorbette,” he says, like a news anchor. “It’s pronounced sorbette.”
Longform Best of 2015
We recommended 1,453 articles this year, from 1,210 writers and 360 publications. They were read nearly 20 million times.
These were our favorites.
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The Content Wars
A series of essays on the rapidly changing media business.
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The Mayor vs. the Mogul
Mike Bloomberg goes back to work.
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How ESPN's Fear of the Truth Defeated "Black Grantland"
Why The Undefeated, a site announced more than two years ago, still hasn’t launched.
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Better Call Ajmal
Critics call it “the radio of pimps and vagina-sellers.” But a popular new call-in show is helping a generation of Afghans navigate a battlefield full of strife and confusion and fear: modern love.
