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The story of one journalist’s giant salary and why his company could no longer pay it.
Silvia Killingsworth The Awl Jan 2018 15min Permalink
A profile of the radio legend who helped launch the career of Ira Glass and many more.
Mark Oppenheimer Slate Jan 2018 25min Permalink
“Watching the cells populate, it rapidly became clear that many of us had weathered more than we had been willing to admit to one another.”
Moira Donegan The Cut Jan 2018 15min Permalink
“I always walk away from an interview — no matter how well it went — knowing that there’s so much that I don’t know about that person.”
David Marchese New York Jan 2018 25min Permalink
Life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror.
James Risen The Intercept Jan 2018 1h5min Permalink
At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Sep 1998 Permalink
How the media company failed to create “a safe and inclusive workplace” for women.
Emily Steel New York Times Dec 2017 15min Permalink
Best Article Arts Business Media
A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”
John Lanchester London Review of Books Feb 2004 25min Permalink
Can local news survive?
Henri Gendreau Wired Nov 2017 20min Permalink
A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”
Lauren Etter Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2017 15min Permalink
On the history and unaccomplished mission of public broadcasting.
Melody Kramer, Betsy O'Donovan Knight Foundation Dec 2017 30min Permalink
A prescient case for W. Mark Felt as journalism’s most famous leaker.
James Mann The Atlantic May 1992 Permalink
“Project Veritas, founded in 2010, is a tax-exempt charity that says its mission is to “investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct.” It raised $4.8 million and employed 38 people in 2016, according to its public tax filing. It also had 92 volunteers.”
Shawn Boburg, Aaron C. Davis, Alice Crites Washington Post Nov 2017 10min Permalink
There exists a swarm of angry sports fans who maintain that they do not want to talk about Colin Kaepernick or the national anthem, and Barstool has cleared a space for them to gather and talk, mostly, about just how much they don’t want to talk about politics. They claim to be an overlooked majority — the vast market inefficiency that will richly reward anyone who will let them watch their games, memes and funny videos without having to feel bad about themselves. Barstool is their safe space.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Nov 2017 25min Permalink
Some players, from the start, were up front about admitting it was a hoax. Others insisted, to their graves, that the story was true, that the Lutz family had been haunted by something. It’s just that the something may not have been paranormal at all.
Michelle Dean Topic Oct 2017 15min Permalink
“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”
Mike Monteiro Medium Oct 2017 10min Permalink
A profile of Harvey Weinstein.
David Carr New York Dec 2001 35min Permalink
An email cache offers a look behind the Breitbart curtain.
Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Oct 2017 35min Permalink
How the writer works.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Sep 2017 25min Permalink
Growing old at the Playboy Mansion.
Chris Jones Esquire Apr 2013 40min Permalink
At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.
Searching for the truth about a site known for busting myths.
Michelle Dean Wired Sep 2017 20min Permalink
A profile of the Fox News anchor, who started his media career as a promising magazine writer.
Stephen Rodrick GQ Sep 2017 15min Permalink
Memories from journalists he mentored.
Mikaela Lefrak The Atlantic Sep 2017 10min Permalink
How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.
Jim Rutenberg New York Times Magazine Sep 2017 35min Permalink