The Desperate Gamble of Scottie Nell Hughes, World's Most Loyal Trump Surrogate
A profile of a woman who spends her days evangelizing Donald Trump on TV.
A profile of a woman who spends her days evangelizing Donald Trump on TV.
Olivia Nuzzi GQ Oct 2016 15min Permalink
Inside a pageview scam.
Anna Merlan Jezebel Oct 2016 20min Permalink
The demise of a once-great newspaper.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Sep 2016 25min Permalink
A profile of the congressman turned morning show host, who spends his free time working on a musical about Donald Trump.
Jason Zengerle GQ Sep 2016 20min Permalink
As editor-in-chief of Variety, Peter Bart was one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry. This piece got him suspended.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2001 45min Permalink
A two-part series on how and why Arianna Huffington lost control of The Huffington Post.
William D. Cohan Vanity Fair Sep 2016 15min Permalink
How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants.
Ian Parker New Yorker Sep 2016 35min Permalink
Violence convulses the city of Chicago after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars.
Peter Nickeas Chicago Magazine Aug 2016 25min Permalink
The writer investigates her late husband Ted Streshinsky, whose photographs documented the 1960s, and J. Edgar Hoover’s attempts to label him a Soviet spy.
Shirley Streshinsky The American Scholar Jun 2016 25min Permalink
Jonathan Kos-Read’s long, strange trip to movie stardom.
Mitch Moxley New York Times Magazine Jul 2016 10min Permalink
What it means when an investigative reporter’s undercover work is framed as a personal journey.
Suki Kim The New Republic Jun 2016 10min Permalink
A profile of photographer Bill Cunningham.
Lauren Collins New Yorker Mar 2009 15min Permalink
“Things don’t just flow out of your brain. It’s not like, Hey, I’m brilliant. Show up, paper right here, bam, another banger. No—you sit and you struggle with yourself and you stop cutting your hair. I’m not cutting my hair right now. You stop shaving, like I’m not shaving right now. You remember that you can fail. I’ve failed several times. The fact that everybody else don’t see that don’t give me the right to not see it.”
Bomani Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates Playboy Jun 2016 25min Permalink
“When I was covering the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, was there a real difference between my wanting to get to the village or hospital where people were dying terrible deaths, and my wanting people to be dying terrible deaths in whatever village or hospital I happened to be going to? Every assignment presents some variation of that question.”
Luke Mogelson Literary Hub Jun 2016 10min Permalink
What started as a DVD-mailing service has changed the way we watch TV. Now Netflix has to do it again. (And again. And again.)
Joe Nocera New York Times Magazine Jun 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of Roseanne Barr and her multiple personalities.
Mike Sager Esquire Aug 2001 25min Permalink
Fifty years ago, Rona Barrett forged a Hollywood gossip empire. Then she left it all behind, her innovations attributed to others, her legacy almost entirely overlooked.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed May 2016 25min Permalink
Best Article Arts Politics Media
A profile of the man who helped invent the modern art of presidential spin and came to embody the blurry line between journalist and government official.
Michael Kelly New York Times Magazine Oct 1993 50min Permalink
All aboard the maiden voyage Rob Gronkowski’s party cruise.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Boston Magazine May 2016 15min Permalink
On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.
Kelly McEvers Lenny Apr 2016 Permalink
A history of the women’s television channel and its push to employ female writers and directors long before it became an issue in Hollywood.
Laura Goode Buzzfeed Apr 2016 20min Permalink
“The tragedy of Dorothy Parker, it seems to me, isn’t that she succumbed to alcoholism or died essentially alone. It was that she was too intelligent to believe that she had made the most of herself.”
Robert Gottlieb New York Review of Books Apr 2016 15min Permalink
Why ISIS is winning the social media war.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Mar 2016 Permalink
A profile of Garry Shandling.
Amy Wallace GQ Aug 2010 25min Permalink
What it was like to report on feminism for Playboy in 1969.
Susan Braudy Jezebel Mar 2016 15min Permalink