A journalist on the troll who tried to destroy her.

How Kinfolk makes money while driving people crazy.

Kate del Castillo, the actress who brought Sean Penn to Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, tells her side of the story.

She was mocked for her clothes and for her hair. Tabloids published nude photos of her and covered her custody fight. The defense called her hysterical. The judge condescended to her. She lost. And then she became a punchline. Twenty years later, thanks in part to The People v. O.J. Simpson, Marcia Clark is finally being seen in full.

The post-newsroom lives of veteran newspaper reporters who have lost their jobs.

Wayne Simmons was ideal conservative commentator. A former C.I.A. operative, he ate lunch with Donald Rumsfeld, took trips to Guantánamo aboard Air Force Two, and pumped the party line on Fox News. There was only one problem: Simmons had never been in the C.I.A.

The original article that inspired the movie Spotlight.

The story of freelance journalist Anna Therese Day.

The real story of a fabricator.

Harvey Levin runs a gossip site that operates like an intelligence agency.

“There are critics who see their job as to be on the side of the artist, or in a state of imaginative sympathy or alliance with the artist. I think it's important for a critic to be populist in the sense that we’re on the side of the public. I think one of the reasons is, frankly, capitalism. Whether you’re talking about restaurants or you’re talking about movies, you’re talking about large-scale commercial enterprises that are trying to sell themselves and market themselves and publicize themselves. A critic is, in a way, offering consumer advice.”

A profile of the editor behind Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, Jay Z’s Decoded, and more.

Winona Ryder has always been trapped in her own anticipatory nostalgia, and the public has always wanted to keep her there.

On the talent, ego, and late father of Bryant Gumbel.

“In this scene, set at a government dacha, they are joined by their American counterparts at the State Department for a daylong picnic that grows increasingly informal, involving drinks, flirtation, a guitar jam and (spoiler) contact between two spies. At times in my new job, I feel like a spy myself, and one with a shaky cover. I don’t have a good answer for how I got here.”

The humans behind the algorithm.

Celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini was not all that he seemed.

A photographer captured the moment when a race organizer confronted a woman who’d snuck into the race.

The real journalists who inspired the movie look back on their investigation.

On feminism and the limitations of outrage online.

Angie Nwandu has no journalism experience. No publishing experience. She’s 25. And in less than two years she has created an entirely new way to cover — and profit from — celebrity gossip.

One of the first lefty political bloggers has no job, mostly tweets, and thinks Donald Trump has it right on immigration.

Famous people and the media have always needed each other. It has been a long, mutually beneficial (and mutually profitable) partnership. And it’s over.

The Philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, especially if you’re in talk radio.

The ups and downs of being an accidental viral sensation.