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Media

How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down

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.

Caitlin Dickerson New York Times Magazine Sep 2017 Permalink

Media

Snopes and the Search for Facts in a Post-Fact World

Searching for the truth about a site known for busting myths.

Michelle Dean Wired Sep 2017 20min Permalink

Media

Tucker Carlson Is Sorry for Being Mean

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

Stephen Rodrick GQ Sep 2017 15min Permalink

Media

The David Carr Generation

Memories from journalists he mentored.

Mikaela Lefrak The Atlantic Sep 2017 10min Permalink

World Media

RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War

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

Media

The Graduate

On navigating the New York media world as a young journalist.

Nora Ephron Elle Nov 2010 15min Permalink

Media

The Weekly Package

In Cuba, hand-delivered hard drives bring the web into people’s homes.

Kim Wall Harper's Jul 2017 Permalink

History Media

It Took a Village

A history of the Village Voice.

Louis Menand New Yorker Jan 2009 30min Permalink

Media Movies & TV

Critical Failure

What happened to film critic Armond White?

Stephen Kearse Hazlitt Aug 2017 15min Permalink

Best Article Media

The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens

Inside a world where a user named Pizza can amass millions of followers, transform internet humor, get caught peddling diet pills in get-rich-quick schemes, and have her blog shut down—all before graduating high school.

Elspeth Reeve The New Republic Feb 2016 15min Permalink

Sports Media

The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest Fuck-Up

Twenty years later, looking back at an infamous paragraph.

Jeff Pearlman Deadspin Aug 2017 20min Permalink

Politics Media

Down the Breitbart Hole

How dangerous is the media company that Steve Bannon called “the platform for the alt-right”?

Wil S. Hylton New York Times Magazine Aug 2017 35min Permalink

Media

How SB Nation Profits Off an Army of Exploited Workers

The underbelly of Vox Media’s success.

Laura Wagner Deadspin Aug 2017 30min Permalink

Media

Zoë and the Trolls

Video-game designer Zoë Quinn in the aftermath of Gamergate, an act of web harassment with world-altering implications.

Noreen Malone New York Jul 2017 25min Permalink

Media

What Goes Up

How a daredevil helicopter pilot helped birth modern news.

Jack Hitt Epic Jul 2017 50min Permalink

World Media

Journalism Under Putin

“The murder of Anna Politkovskaya was at once unbelievable and utterly expected.”

Michael Specter New Yorker Jan 2007 40min Permalink

Arts Media

Will I Get A Ticket?

A conversation with Lucinda Chambers shortly after she was fired from British Vogue, where she had been fashion editor for the last 25 years.

Anja Aronowsky Cronberg Vestoj Jul 2017 Permalink

Science Media

Is the Staggeringly Profitable Business of Scientific Publishing Bad for Science?

Inside the economics of scientific publishing, an industry that’s somehow nearly as profitable as film and has changed the course of science in the process.

Stephen Buranyi The Guardian Jun 2017 25min Permalink

Politics Media

The Not-So-Bitter Rivalry of Dean Baquet and Marty Baron

They’re friends who once vied for the same jobs. Now, as editors of The New York Times and The Washington Post, they’re locked in a daily battle for Trump scoops.

Joe Pompeo Politico Jun 2017 35min Permalink

Media

A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter

Jonny Sun created a beloved, mega-popular alien character on Twitter. Now he’s trying to figure out everything else.

Jesse Lichtenstein New York Times Magazine Jun 2017 10min Permalink

Arts Media

Welcome to Poppy's World

Her creepy, surreal YouTube videos have millions of views, but no one knows Poppy’s full story.

Lexi Pandell Wired Jun 2017 20min Permalink

Sports Media

How The Jordan Rules Created the Era of NBA Gossip

Remembering the book that changed the way journalists covered the NBA.

Bryan Curtis The Ringer Jun 2017 15min Permalink

Crime Sex Media

East Side Story

Blazers and bloodbath near the 6 train.

Michael Stone New York Nov 1986 40min Permalink

Media

Wanna Know What Donald Trump Is Really Thinking? Read Maggie Haberman

A profile of the New York Times White House correspondent.

Rachael Combe Elle May 2017 20min Permalink

Media

Meet Matt Boyle, Breitbart’s (Other) Man in the White House

A profile of Steve Bannon’s 29-year-old protégé, the Washington bureau chief at Breitbart, who according to a former editor “has two modes: murder and blowjob.”

Luke Mullins Washingtonian May 2017 20min Permalink

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