The life and death of a reporter.

A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”

“You know a storm is going to be bad, people in Oklahoma will tell you, when Gary England removes his jacket.” A profile of a meteorologist who has worked Tornado Alley for more than 40 years.

The inquiry into a nurse’s suicide after she was on the receiving end of a crank call.

The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.

Is being a war correspondent worth the risk?

Nine innings with Mr. Baseball.

The rise and fall and rise of Hill flack Kurt Bardella, and what it says about D.C. culture.

How Robert Gottlieb quelled a rebellion and saved The New Yorker.

Note: Elon Green is a contributing editor to Longform.

The long, strange trip of the Wikipedia founder, who went from being an Insane Clown Posse fan who owned the “Bomis Babe Report” to a jet-setter married to “the most connected woman in London,” all without turning much of a profit.

“Before Glenn Greenwald was the journalist who broke and defended the most important story of 2013, he was many other things: an underage South Florida politician, a lawyer at a high-powered corporate firm, Kips Bay’s most combative tenant, and even the legal arm of his business partner’s gay porn distribution company.”

The economics of freelance journalism in 2013.

A eulogy for the journalist.

A profile of Dennis Rodman today.

On the media’s failure to cover climate change.

The story behind the spectacle.

A profile of the almost-president.

“Ebert: Sometimes we do really dislike each other.

Siskel: And sometimes we don’t.”

“The first time I was ever published in a book was 1997. It was because I found Roger Ebert’s email and asked him a question.”

An oral history of Siskel and Ebert.

“I never attacked anyone weak. Only bullies, secure in their courts, bureacracies, fifedoms.”

The past, present, and increasingly optimistic future of Vice.

On Aint It Cool News’ Harry Knowles, who built an influential empire on insider movie news while wheelchair-bound and at one point weighing over 500 pounds, then lost it all.

In 1913, Joe Knowles became a media sensation after fleeing into the Maine woods wearing nothing but a jockstrap. Two months and one bear-clubbing incident later, the “Nature Man” returned to civilization as a hero. But was it all hoax?

How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.