A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth. Also, the greatest April Fools’ Day prank in the history of journalism.

Over six days in 1835, the New York Sun reported a stunning development—life had been found on the moon.

One of the most famous fabrications in journalism history, Janet Cooke’s Pulitzer-winning invention of an 8-year-old boy with a heroin habit.

See also: Bill Green’s 14,000-word post-mortem on “Jimmy’s World.”

Nearly 20 years after its publication, Cohn revealed that his story, which was the basis for Saturday Night Fever, was a fake—a fact that still isn’t noted on New York’s website.

The definitive profile of Stephen Glass, 25-year-old wunderkind reporter and serial fabricator.

See also: Sixteen years later, a former colleague confronts Glass.

The paper of record comes clean about Jayson Blair.

There is an island in the Florida Keys, the author said, where men fish for monkeys.

There was no island, no men, and no monkeys.

How Zion, Ill., a fundamentalist Christian settlement with a population of 6,250, created one of the most popular stations in the country during the early days of radio.

On conservative radio host John Ziegler and modern media.

An oral history of WFAN, the first all-sports talk radio station.

A profile of Michael Savage.

On the BBC radio addresses of E.M. Forster.

A profile of Ira Glass a few years into This American Life.

On Beck’s rise, pre-fall.

A conversation about a new art form called “creative journalism,” conducted the same month In Cold Blood was published.

An interview with Talese on his career and daily writing routine.

An interview with Katherine Boo about how you cover the world’s poorest.

An essay on motivation.

Notes for the next generation.

And interview with The New Yorker’s John McPhee about how his style has evolved and his routine has endured.

A manifesto from one of the first professional bloggers on a new “golden age of journalism.”

One of the earliest in-depth reports on climate change, Revkin’s piece introduced many to the issue—and to the challenges of addressing it.

The perilous existence of the world’s glaciers, “global warming’s ticking time bomb.”

Why don’t TV weathermen believe in climate change?

On the possibilities of geo-engineering.

The story of how Washington blew its best shot to do something on climate change.

Inside the increasingly hostile global-warming debate.

A primer on climate change economics.