A profile of Eliot Higgins, whose blog, Brown Moses, has become required reading at intelligence agencies, human rights organizations, and news outlets around the world.
Stephen Glass, the most notorious fraud in journalism, decided he would live by one simple rule: Always tell the truth. Then he broke that rule
An intrepid expert with dozens of books to his name, Stéphane Bourgoin was a bestselling author, famous in France for having interviewed more than 70 notorious murderers. Then an anonymous collective began to investigate his past.
Platforms like OnlyFans mean people with big followings online can earn money. Where does that leave the sex workers who were there first?
Dave Ramsey, corporate media, and how we talk about financial distress.
On working at Ozy.
Scare stories on “left-wing illiberalism” display a familiar pattern.
Inside Alden Global Capital.
On the invisible labor that makes media work.
We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone.
Inside a quirky indie publisher’s turn to Covid trutherism
Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world?
Selling the story of disinformation.
America’s most fearless satirist has seen his wildest fictions become reality.
After the election of Narendra Modi in 2014, Muslim journalists covering Hindu extremism noticed a change. The masks came off; the facade of courtesy, once flimsy, crumbled altogether.
The writer of a contentious piece of science fiction, “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” drew the internet’s ire. Now she tells her story.
Gavin McInnes used to be known as a Vice magazine co-founder with controversial political leanings and an affinity for darkly unfunny jokes. Now, he’s also known as the founder of the far-right group the Proud Boys.
The petty, vindictive, backbiting, lawsuit-laden, career-ruining infighting at everyone’s favorite local NY1 news station.
How China’s biggest audio platform funded one man’s frat boy dreams.
In just a few years, he’s become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country—mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny?
Twenty-five years later, the BBC investigates its own reporter.
A cohort of journalists is drowning in burnout, trauma, and moral injury.
When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire.
Tucker Carlson: The bow-tie is gone, but the moxie remains.
Caliphate and the perils of reporting online.
