A profile of Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News.

On the late comedian Bill Hicks, just as a performance on Letterman is deemed unfit for network TV.

But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing. And like other media it has a question that it answers better than any other. That question is: Why wasn't I consulted?

On how 21st century culture shifts killed the nerd and what lies ahead.

On the (disputed) origins of the Huffington Post.

An interview with mind behind both Five Easy Pieces and The Monkees.

Nick Denton is rebooting his entire Gawker empire—and his vision is drawn more from TV than blogs.

Thoughts on an emerging brand of feminism and the ridiculousness of claiming that Tina Fey is unattractive.

A profile of Larry David, with a focus on his years as a struggling stand-up. “I was hoping that somehow I could get some kind of cult following and get by with that.”

The unedited transcript of an interview with Julian Assange for the cover story of Forbes’ December issue. His next target? A major U.S. bank.

Its editors still live in different cities, still work different careers, and still treat Boing Boing as a (lucrative) hobby.

How Sinclair Broadcast Group bent the rules, bought politicians, and faked the news to become one of the largest independent owners of television stations in America.

In Detroit, the aftermath of a reality-TV SWAT raid that killed a sleeping seven-year-old.

The perpetually underpaid author takes a moonlighting job with Demand Media, publisher of search-engine optimized articles with titles like “Hair Styles for Women Over 50 With Glasses”, absurdity ensues.

The young Woody Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never make it as a performer and then does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.

The article that spawned a school of thought; an elegy for the age of the megahit and a primer for the niche-based future.

Behind the scenes of Conan vs. Leno. An excerpt from The War for Late Night.

On the set of Afghanistan’s first soap opera and at home with its cast.

As CEO of HBO, Chris Albrecht was responsible for putting The Wire, The Sopranos, and Sex and the City on the air. Then he choked his girlfriend outside a Vegas casino, got fired, and took a job running Starz.

A profile of Nick Denton.

Why did a veteran BBC on-air personality confess on camera to a mercy killing he did not commit?

Behind the scenes with Kenny Powers, on set filming the 2nd run of Eastbound & Down, probably the only American TV series that would set an entire season in Mexico.

In the last decade, newsrooms across the country have adopted a “do more with less” strategy. It’s a kamikaze mission.

Ten years ago, a pair of legendary TV executives decided it was time to change the formula for football broadcasting. One bet on Dennis Miller. The other bankrolled Vince McMahon and the XFL.

A profile of Jon Stewart, who’s now run The Daily Show for more than a decade.