The Social[ist] Network
The story of Daily Kos and its founder, Markos Moulitsas.
The story of Daily Kos and its founder, Markos Moulitsas.
Jessica Lussenhop City Pages Jun 2011 15min Permalink
The life and death of Anna Nicole Smith.
Dan P. Lee New York Jun 2011 30min Permalink
Inside the complicated world of running The New York Times.
A reporter on his first time covering a disaster.
Brian Stelter The Deadline May 2011 10min Permalink
The year of the revolution, from behind the camera.
Michael Paterniti GQ Jun 2011 25min Permalink
“Winning” in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.
Roseanne Barr New York May 2011 15min Permalink
Confessions of a yellow journalist:
Let me say that I did very little faking, although there was no special prejudice against it, so long as the fake wasn't libelous.
Silas Bent The Atlantic Jun 1926 20min Permalink
A profile of Larry Garrison, the man who “gets paid to bring tabloid stories to TV news programs.”
Sheelah Kolhatkar The Atlantic Sep 2010 40min Permalink
Henry Luce and Time vs. Harold Ross and The New Yorker. What was at stake in the epic magazine rivalry of the 20th century?
Jill Lepore New Yorker Apr 2010 25min Permalink
NYT journalist David Rohde’s alternately terrifying and absurd first person account of his kidnapping en route to an interview in Southern Afghanistan and the subsequent seven months he, along with his translator and driver, spent in captivity in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
David Rohde New York Times Oct 2009 1h Permalink
Benjamin Wallace GQ 50min Permalink
A profile of the “lawyer-turned-journalist-turned-talk-show-host-turned-journalist.”
Sridhar Pappu The Atlantic Jun 2005 30min Permalink
How a herbalist who used to swim naked with Allen Ginsberg became one of conservative talk radio’s most vicious—and listened to—hosts.
David Gilson Salon Mar 2003 20min Permalink
No one really knows the script for days like these, and neither did we.
Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks New York Times Mar 2011 10min Permalink
The underage prostitution study that was cited extensively in the congressional hearings that resulted in the removal of Craigslist’s Erotic Services turns out to be the work of a for-hire business consulting firm and, scientifically, completely bogus.
Nick Pinto Village Voice Mar 2011 15min Permalink
The perilous routes through which information—video footage, secret documents, radio broadcasts—flow in and out of North Korea through its porous borders with China.
Robert S. Boynton The Atlantic Apr 2011 15min Permalink
Is it time to end the mourning period for old media?
James Fallows The Atlantic Apr 2011 30min Permalink
How Dan Savage became America’s leading ethicist.
What did $3M paid to a US consulting firm get Qaddafi? A glowing profile in The New Republic, written by a Harvard professor, who travelled to Tripoli to interview him. On the consulting company’s dime. Which he failed to disclose.
David Corn, Siddhartha Mahanta Mother Jones Mar 2011 10min Permalink
Best Article History Tech Media
The challenges facing the historians of the internet.
Ariel Bleicher IEEE Spectrum Mar 2011 15min Permalink
Kansas City’s most powerful political journalist is a 36-year-old blogger who resides in a porn lair in his mother’s basement, posting rants on local government and bikini shots 24-hours-a-day.
A profile of Alex Jones, who draws a bigger online audience than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh combined.
Alexander Zaitchik Rolling Stone Mar 2011 15min Permalink
On the future of the liberal Israeli newspaper Haartez.
David Remnick New Yorker Feb 2011 45min Permalink
How a journalism professor named Dan Sinker became the most entertaining part of the Chicago mayoral race.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Feb 2011 10min Permalink
A manifesto from one of the first professional bloggers on a new ‘golden age of journalism.’
Andrew Sullivan The Atlantic Nov 2008 20min Permalink