Maria Ressa, editor of a popular news site in the Philippines, has incurred President Duterte and his supporters’ wrath by investigating his extrajudicial killing campaign.

This presentation was shown to potential recruits for the new Maven SI venture, and it details exactly how the people now in charge of Sports Illustrated plan on turning it into the sort of volume-driven content farm that ruled the web a dozen or so tweaks of the Google algorithm ago.

Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

From the proto-bleep to meta-bleep: how the US government protects us from the profane.

In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.

Tavi Gevinson talks.

A Instagram-caption ghostwriter speaks.

A history of the New York Times Styles section.

“The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits; it’s that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”

Can a college sophomore turn WeRateDogs into a puppers empire?

At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging?

What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create.

A profile.

Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.

Shari Redstone sits atop a $30 billion media empire.

On what it’s like to go viral and the moral complications of laughing along.

“Look out at Twitter, at YouTube, at cable news. Behold a whole precarious world of media hopefuls swarming every bitter inch of the culture war, filming angry Americans, filming each other, filming themselves, grimly determined to find or frame a few seconds of a reality to sell.”

The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.

How much does the world need to know about a deadly bear attack? That question was tested in the Yukon last year, after the horrific loss of a mother and daughter caused a destructive media storm.

An Iowa sports radio pioneer turns scammer.

On Dooce.com founder Heather Armstrong.

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.

“You are not your job.” The former staff writer finds a newfound joy in his restaurant career.

On the death of David Carr.