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.

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting.

Understanding Joe Biden by way of his favorite historian.

How social media stars like Addison Rae gave the cosmetics industry a makeover.

“My entire vocation as an investigative reporter was predicated on being able to reveal truths, and yet I could not even rustle up the evidence to convince my own mother.”

The assumptions made by public officials, and the choices made by media, too often backfired.

Seth Abramson’s viral meta-journalism unreality.

A profile of Larry King at the height of his fame and on the heels of his sixth divorce.

How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.

The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity.

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.