Keith Olbermann Was Once Cable News’s Liberal Standard-Bearer. Now He’s Missing Its Boom Times.
The fall of a famous anchor.
The fall of a famous anchor.
Greg Howard New York Times Magazine May 2017 15min Permalink
After decades at the fringe, conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones helped usher a president into office. Now, the only person standing in Jones’ way is Jones.
Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed May 2017 25min Permalink
Bill Conradt, a well-known prosecutor, never arrived at the house in Murphy, Texas, where police and a crew from NBC’s To Catch a Predator were waiting. So the crew, along with a SWAT team, went to Conradt.
Luke Dittrich Esquire Feb 2009 Permalink
In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.
Ira Boudway, Max Chafkin Businessweek Mar 2017 30min Permalink
A day with ESPN’s NFL scoopmaster.
Tim Rohan Monday Morning Quarterback Mar 2017 15min Permalink
An interview with the founding editor of the New York Review of Books, who died Monday.
Mark Danner New York Apr 2013 30min Permalink
A profile of Jimmy Breslin.
Ambrose Clancy GQ Nov 1987 20min Permalink
Sean Spicer and a new era in the briefing room.
Andrew Marantz New Yorker Mar 2017 30min Permalink
George Trow’s Within the Context of No Context was a brilliant, scary vision of a cultural end-time. Then, having described it, he lived it, spiraling into madness.
Ariel Levy New York Oct 2007 25min Permalink
How New York Times is clawing its way into the future:
The main goal is... to transform the Times’ digital subscriptions into the main engine of a billion-dollar business, one that could pay to put reporters on the ground in 174 countries even if (OK, when) the printing presses stop forever. To hit that mark, the Times is embarking on an ambitious plan inspired by the strategies of Netflix, Spotify, and HBO: invest heavily in a core offering... while continuously adding new online services and features... so that a subscription becomes indispensable to the lives of its existing subscribers and more attractive to future ones.
Gabriel Snyder Wired Feb 2017 20min Permalink
" I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America, and that’s all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface, I was full of secrets..."
Cat Marnell New York Jan 2017 15min Permalink
"There is a real danger here that this maneuver can harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him."
Glenn Greenwald The Intercept Jan 2017 10min Permalink
No one understands our new era of reality-TV populism better than the man who turned “The Real Housewives” into an empire.
Taffy Brodeser-Akner New York Times Magazine Jan 2017 20min Permalink
Not all that long ago, as the editor in chief of Gawker.com, Daulerio was among the most influential and feared figures in media. Now the forty-two-year-old is unemployed, his bank has frozen his life savings of $1,500, and a $1,200-per-month one-bedroom is all he can afford. He's renting here, he says, to be near the counselors and support network he has come to rely on lately.
Maximillian Potter Esquire Jan 2017 25min Permalink
“You know, you’re a nasty guy,” he said. “You’re really a nasty guy.”
David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Dec 2016 20min Permalink
Leaking from the inside, leaking from the outside.
Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker Dec 2016 20min Permalink
A conversation with Vasily Gotov:
"Russia undoubtedly celebrated the reports in American media about its activities. They want to instill doubt. They want to be part of the agenda. They want to penetrate our media culture. Russian penetration is dramatically overstated in American media, but that only serves them better. It creates the impression that they're more powerful than they are. That discussions like this are necessary at all is a tremendous win for Russia."
Sean Illing Vox Dec 2016 10min Permalink
Inside the fall of Village Voice Media’s backpage.com.
Kate Knibbs The Ringer Nov 2016 25min Permalink
A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.
Joshua Green Businessweek Oct 2015 25min Permalink
The complicated relationship between Gawker founder Nick Denton and his arch-nemesis investorr Peter Thiel.
David Margolick Vanity Fair Nov 2016 20min Permalink
For 60 years, the weekly Evening Whirl attacked the drug lords, whoring preachers, and hypocritical bourgeoisie of St. Louis’ black community, sometimes in rhyming Iambic couplets.
Scott Eden The Believer Nov 2006 25min Permalink
The story of Jennifer Frey, a sportswriting prodigy who drank herself to death.
Dave McKenna Deadspin Oct 2016 40min Permalink
A former WikiLeaks employee on the motivations driving his old boss.
James Ball Buzzfeed Oct 2016 15min Permalink
How Warren Hinckle and Ramparts magazine helped revive muckraking journalism and launch the New Left.
Peter Collier The New Criterion Oct 2016 Permalink
A young journalist spent her days covering sexual assault and domestic violence. Then she became the story.
Lisa Gregoire Eighteen Bridges Dec 2015 20min Permalink