Charles Bowden’s Fury
The lingering psychological effects of being one of the greatest crime reporters of all time.
The lingering psychological effects of being one of the greatest crime reporters of all time.
Scott Carrier High Country News Oct 2014 20min Permalink
It’s a mess inside the network – and Brian Williams may still come out on top.
Gabriel Sherman New York Mar 2015 25min Permalink
“Okay,” I said. “What do you think is the percentage chance that I’m right?”
“I don’t know,” she said. “Five percent?”
Uncovering the real story behind Capote’s Hand-Carved Coffins.
Leni Gillman, Peter Gillman Sunday Times Magazine Jun 1992 25min Permalink
The article that kept the New Yorker alive was written by a debutante. Who happened to be married to Irving Berlin.
Ian Frazier New Yorker Feb 2015 25min Permalink
They’re still printing it on paper.
Reeves Wiedeman Popular Mechanics Feb 2015 Permalink
David Carr, the New York Times media reporter and a friend, died Thursday night in the newsroom.
Here are some of our favorite pieces from his archive.
“Journalists are the most craven recognition freaks on the planet. We make our mistakes in public because we want our innermost thoughts pasted on the refrigerator of American consciousness.”
David Carr Washington City Paper Apr 1999 10min
“Even people who used to say horrible things about [Ruth] Shalit at anonymous remove loved seeing her at parties, a cerebral confection of a person — you never knew what might pop out of those oddly colored lips.”
David Carr Washington City Paper Apr 1999
“What remains is still a neighborhood of people with hopes of mobility, but Chancellor Avenue, the heart of the Weequahic neighborhood, no longer has any commercial viability. Turn down the wrong block, some locals say, and commerce of another sort, furtive and transitory, is under way.”
David Carr New York Times Oct 2004
“I always thought that people who spent endless amounts of time drilling into their personal histories are fundamentally unhappy in their lives, and I’m not. I’m ecstatic in my own dark, morbid way and subscribe to a theory of the past that allows the future to unfold: We all did the best we could.”
David Carr New York Times Magazine Jul 2008 30min
“Behind the collapse of the Tribune deal and the bankruptcy is a classic example of financial hubris. Mr. Zell, a hard-charging real estate mogul with virtually no experience in the newspaper business, decided that a deal financed with heavy borrowing and followed with aggressive cost-cutting could succeed where the longtime Tribune executives he derided as bureaucrats had failed.”
David Carr New York Times Oct 2010 15min
“I mean, I live in New Jersey, which has a very good local paper called The Star-Ledger, but they’re about half as big as they used to be, and this place is a game-preserve of corruption—we needed three buses to haul away the mayors and various city council members the last time the FBI came in. I can’t help but think that the absence of high-level, sustained-accountability journalism had something to do with that.”
Aaron Sorkin Interview May 2011 10min
Apr 1999 – May 2011 Permalink
The life and mysterious death of writer Susan Berman.
Lisa DePaulo New York Dec 2001 25min Permalink
What does satire do? What should we expect of it? Is it crucial to Western culture that we be free to produce it?
Tim Parks New York Review of Books Jan 2015 10min Permalink
Merriam-Webster is revising its most authoritative tome for the digital age. But in an era of twerking and trolling, what should a dictionary look like?
Stefan Fatsis Slate Jan 2015 45min Permalink
How a reporter’s assistant got into trouble with Beijing security.
Angela Köckritz Die Zeit Jan 2015 25min Permalink
Meet Ben Sherwood, the new head of the Disney/ABC Television Group.
Andrew Goldman New York Jan 2015 20min Permalink
Exploring the darkest corridors of the Internet.
Jed Lipinski Mental Floss Dec 2012 15min Permalink
Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?
Reeves Wiedeman New York Jan 2015 20min Permalink
How ESPN anchor Stuart Scott battled cancer.
Richard Sandomir New York Times Mar 2014 Permalink
The Bachelor’s host, Chris Harrison, is now a divorced bachelor himself. It turns out coaching single men is a lot easier than being one.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ Jan 2015 20min Permalink
A 3-part interview with the man who says he helped bury the body of Hae Min Lee.
“Hae was dead before she got to my house. Anything that makes Adnan innocent doesn’t involve me.”
The collateral damage of an extremely popular podcast about murder.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper The Intercept Dec 2014 35min Permalink
How a young entrepreneur built a media empire by repackaging memes.
Andrew Marantz New Yorker Dec 2014 20min Permalink
The untold story of the world’s most infamous sex tape, and how the Internet spread it faster than anyone expected.
Amanda Chicago Lewis Rolling Stone Dec 2014 30min Permalink
The inside story, involving low ratings, new ownership, suspected leaks, and a mandate that Meet the Press “loosen up.”
Luke Mullins Washingtonian Dec 2014 25min Permalink
The mainstreaming of livestreaming.
Adrian Chen New York Dec 2014 15min Permalink
What it was like to edit The New Republic at its most contentious.
One of the little tweaks I made the first time I got the job was to change the slogan on the table of contents from “A Journal of Politics and the Arts” back to the original: “A Weekly Journal of Opinion.” All the fine reporting notwithstanding, what The New Republic did best, had always done best, was opinion. Its politics were polemical, its art was the art of argument.
Hendrik Hertzberg New Republic Nov 2014 10min Permalink
An essay on PTSD.
Tom Ricks New Yorker Dec 2014 10min Permalink
The author’s long-running relationship with the grotesque.
Alana Massey Pacific Standard Dec 2014 15min Permalink
“I was in the visiting clubhouse waiting to interview one of the Oakland A’s this year when one of the players called, ‘Here, pussy’—as though he were calling a cat. But of course, he hadn’t lost Fluffy; he’d found a woman in his locker room.”
Jennifer Briggs Dallas Observer Jun 1992 35min Permalink