What the author learned about himself from Jill Abramson’s Merchants of Truth.

A profile of Lorena Bobbitt.

The making, and marketing, of a 9-year-old meme machine.

Thinking about launching your own media startup? You might want to consider my crazy story first.

On conservative radio host John Ziegler and “the strange media landscape in which political talk radio is a salient.”

On the art of the takedown.

A veteran magazine journalist changes jobs at 57.

The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.

A profile of an influencer.

How lies become truth in online America.

On the ethics of putting the internet’s spotlight on a neighborhood restaurant.

“Yeah, okay, listen. It’s Sy Hersh. Who the f— do you think I am? Your f—ing wife? What do I look like to you? Your f—ing brother-in-law?”

How the magazine industry’s identity crisis is playing out on its front page.

A profile.

A profile of the Fox News commentator.

An oral history of the women who transformed Rolling Stone in the mid-70s.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.

“This is the story of the past three years of my life. It’s romance in a way, but it’s also a breakup story.”

The event evolves.

Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.

He is one of the most powerful people in media and has become a prominent voice in the #MeToo movement. Now six women accuse Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company.

A story of literary ambition, fabulous parties and a hidden past.

“Why are we protecting these guys?”

A maverick war correspondent, Hemingway’s third wife was the only woman at D-Day and saw the liberation of Dachau. Her husband wanted her home in his bed.

After decades of influence, the media mogul isn’t so much a person as an epoch.