Hunter S. Thompson: The Art of Journalism No. 1
A 12-hour interview on career and craft.
Media
My Love Affair With The New York Observer
Diary of a veteran gadfly.
Tom Freston, Runaway Mogul
A Liberian road trip with the creator of MTV, Ralph Reed and a reformed cannibal named General Butt Naked.
Journalistic Standards in Reporting of the Te'o Hoax: Q&A with Deadspin's Tommy Craggs
A lesson in ethics.
The Princess and the Trolls
How Adalia Rose, a six-year-old with an early-aging disorder called progeria, became both an Internet celebrity and the target of online vitriol.
Why Americans Hate the Media
An explanation of enduring distaste.
Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months
The paper reports on a battle of its own.
The Operator
A profile of Dr. Oz.
The Rules of the Game
A history of the Hollywood publicity racket.
The Importance Of Being Francesa
On the cranky king of New York sports talk.
The Tip of the Spear
A reporter who investigated Scientology tracks down the man who once ran the church’s intelligence operations – and who may hold the secret to years of harassment (and the mysterious death of a pet dog).
What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
An internet pioneer loses hope in the promise of web culture.
The Immortalization of an Anonymous Death
On Dylan Yount, a man who jumped from a San Francisco building, and the people who watched, recorded and, in some cases, encouraged his suicide.
Dish Network, the Meanest Company in America
How an autocratic CEO made the company billions, alienating almost everyone else in the process.
The Best-Kept Secret in American Journalism is Murray Kempton
“Four mornings a week Murray Kempton, the Huckleberry Finn of American journalism, climbs onto his bicycle and pedals out into the world in search of what may be there. For more than thirty years he has been finding things other writers have not even thought to look for, and he has done so with a compelling humanity that is rare not just in his profession but in the human race as well. I have followed him as he made his regular rounds, and I have eaten at his table, and I am not all that certain that he is not the greatest man I have ever met.”
2 Good 2 Be 4Gotten
An oral history of Freaks and Geeks.
This Is Amazing!
A profile of Huell Howser, the happiest man on TV.
"I Pretty Much Wanted to Die"
The many reasons Lost shouldn’t have happened.
Larry Hagman's Curtain Call
A profile of the late actor.
Come On, Feel the Buzz
On Politico’s brand of insider journalism.
Slash and Burn
The rise of One Direction fanfiction that imagines the band members in relationships – with each other.
Light Entertainment
An essay on Jimmy Savile, British television and child sexual abuse.
Proust Wasn’t a Neuroscientist. Neither Was Jonah Lehrer.
The allure of conclusion-shaping and a wunderkind’s fall.
Inside the Mansion -- and Mind -- of Kim Dotcom, the Most Wanted Man on the Net
The strange existence of the accused Internet pirate as he battles the U.S. government.
Why Is This Man Running For President Of The Internet?
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.
