The story of one journalist’s giant salary and why his company could no longer pay it.

A profile of the radio legend who helped launch the career of Ira Glass and many more.

“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.”

“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.”

Life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror.

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.

How the media company failed to create “a safe and inclusive workplace” for women.

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.”

Can local news survive?

A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”

On the history and unaccomplished mission of public broadcasting.

A prescient case for W. Mark Felt as journalism’s most famous leaker.

“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.”

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.

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.

“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”

A profile of Harvey Weinstein.

An email cache offers a look behind the Breitbart curtain.

How the writer works.

Growing old at the Playboy Mansion.

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.

A profile of the Fox News anchor, who started his media career as a promising magazine writer.

Memories from journalists he mentored.

How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.