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.
How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.
How Rupert Murdoch’s empire of influence remade the world.
The paper spiked a #MeToo story. Why?
How the former Fear Factor host’s podcast became an essential platform for “freethinkers” who hate the left.
If Thrasher is Vogue for skaters, 53-year-old Jake Phelps is the sport’s Anna Wintour.
A profile of reality-TV star Jax Taylor.
Inside Facebooks war on hate speech.
‘He likes people walking around in fear,’ says one worker. ‘He gets off on it.’
Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?
A profile.
