The Last Supper
Buca was a big-ticket darling of the Toronto restaurant scene. How did it wind up $35 million in debt?
Buca was a big-ticket darling of the Toronto restaurant scene. How did it wind up $35 million in debt?
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Reporting undercover from inside the online-shipping industry.
Gabriel Mac Mother Jones Feb 2012 30min Permalink
The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.
David Grann New Yorker Sep 2009 1h5min Permalink
The University of Maryland waited 18 days to inform students of a virus on campus. That decision left vulnerable students like Olivia Paregol in the dark.
Jenn Abelson, Amy Brittain, Sarah Larimer Washington Post May 2019 30min Permalink
A profile.
Molly Langmuir Elle Feb 2019 15min Permalink
Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.
David Grann New Yorker Jan 2012 55min Permalink
A four-part investigation of brothers William and James ‘Whitey’ Bulger. One was president of the Massachusetts Senate for 17 years. The other was on the lam for 16 years before being captured.
Christine Chinlund, Dick Lehr, Kevin Cullen The Boston Globe Sep 1998 1h15min Permalink
“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?”
Ben Wofford Washingtonian Oct 2018 Permalink
In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods and froze to death. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried nearby in the film Fargo?
Paul Berczeller The Guardian Jun 2003 15min Permalink
Deep Throat, unmasked.
John D. O'Connor Vanity Fair Jul 2005 30min Permalink
A 5-part series on how drug lords make billions smuggling gold to the U.S. for your jewelry and phones.
Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas, Jim Wyss, Kyra Gurney Miami Herald Jan 2018 55min Permalink
The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”
William McGowan Slate Jul 2012 30min Permalink
‘Your Black Muslim Bakery’ commanded vast influence in Oakland, offering jobs and self-empowerment to ex-cons , until this story revealed a history of incest-rapes and kidnappings. Another journalist investigating the story was later murdered.
Chris Thompson East Bay Express Nov 2002 35min Permalink
Searching for the truth about a site known for busting myths.
Michelle Dean Wired Sep 2017 20min Permalink
On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle, and Christe were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of the murders, their aftermath, and the handful of people who kept faith amid the unthinkable.
Thomas French The St. Petersburg Times Oct 1997 3h30min Permalink
The life of a modern-day indentured servant involves a truck, mountains of debt, and moving goods for America’s biggest retailers.
Brett Murphy USA Today Jun 2017 25min Permalink
Why domestic violence is even worse if the abuser is a cop.
Melissa Jeltsen, Dana Liebelson Huffington Post Jun 2017 35min Permalink
Henry Heimlich saved untold choking victimes when he invented his maneuver in 1974. Since then, he’s searched in vain for another miracle treatment—pushing ethical boundaries along the way. Now at the end of his career, Heimlich has hired an investigator to find an anonymous critic working full-time to destroy his legacy.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Apr 2007 25min Permalink
An investigation into America’s largest chain of psychiatric hospitals, where patients are held against their will to maximize profits.
Rosalind Adams Buzzfeed Dec 2016 40min Permalink
A two-part write-around of the world’s only billionaire.
He was a silent boy — a silent young man. With years the habit of silence became the habit of concealment. It was not long after the Standard Oil Company was founded, before it was said in Cleveland that its offices were the most difficult in the town to enter, Mr. Rockefeller the most difficult man to see. If a stranger got in to see any one he was anxious. "Who is that man?" he asked an associate nervously one day, calling him away when the latter was chatting with a stranger. "An old friend, Mr. Rockefeller." "What does he want here? Be careful. Don't let him find out anything." "But he is my friend, Mr. Rockefeller. He does not want to know anything. He has come to see me." "You never can tell. Be very careful, very careful." This caution gradually developed into a Chinese wall of seclusion. This suspicion extended, not only to all outsiders but most insiders. Nobody in the Standard Oil Company was allowed to know any more than was necessary for him to know to do his business. Men who have been officers in the Standard Oil Company say that they have been told, when asking for information about the condition of the business, "You'd better not know. If you know nothing you can tell nothing."
Ida Tarbell McClure's Aug 1906 45min Permalink
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How women at Fox News ended the career of Roger Ailes.
Gabriel Sherman New York Sep 2016 30min Permalink
What it means when an investigative reporter’s undercover work is framed as a personal journey.
Suki Kim The New Republic Jun 2016 10min Permalink
Over a million people are buried in a potter’s field on Hart Island. Here are some of their stories.
Nina Bernstein New York Times May 2016 30min Permalink
After a flawed sexual assault investigation, a Naval Academy instructor made it his mission to prove he did nothing wrong. The discovery of a lost cell phone told a more complicated story.
John Woodrow Cox Washington Post Mar 2016 30min Permalink
The real journalists who inspired the movie look back on their investigation.
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