Alison Roman Just Can’t Help Herself
A food-world star’s method and mess.
A food-world star’s method and mess.
Lauren Collins New Yorker Dec 2021 Permalink
A profile of Eliot Higgins, whose blog, Brown Moses, has become required reading at intelligence agencies, human rights organizations, and news outlets around the world.
Bianca Bosker Huffington Post Nov 2013 20min Permalink
Stephen Glass, the most notorious fraud in journalism, decided he would live by one simple rule: Always tell the truth. Then he broke that rule.
Bill Adair Air Mail Dec 2021 Permalink
An intrepid expert with dozens of books to his name, Stéphane Bourgoin was a bestselling author, famous in France for having interviewed more than 70 notorious murderers. Then an anonymous collective began to investigate his past.
Scott Sayare The Guardian Nov 2021 Permalink
Platforms like OnlyFans mean people with big followings online can earn money. Where does that leave the sex workers who were there first?
Rebecca Jennings Vox Nov 2021 25min Permalink
Dave Ramsey, corporate media, and how we talk about financial distress.
Lucy Schiller Columbia Journalism Review Oct 2021 30min Permalink
On working at Ozy.
Pooja Bhatia London Review of Books Oct 2021 15min Permalink
Scare stories on “left-wing illiberalism” display a familiar pattern.
Michael Hobbes Confirm My Choices Oct 2021 20min Permalink
Inside Alden Global Capital.
McKay Coppins The Atlantic Oct 2021 Permalink
On the invisible labor that makes media work.
Alex Sujong Laughlin Study Hall Oct 2021 25min Permalink
We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone.
Elaine Godfrey The Atlantic Oct 2021 15min Permalink
Inside a quirky indie publisher’s turn to Covid trutherism
Chelsea Edgar Seven Days Sep 2021 25min Permalink
Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world?
Stephanie Clifford Elle Dec 2020 20min Permalink
Selling the story of disinformation.
Joseph Bernstein Harper's Aug 2021 25min Permalink
America’s most fearless satirist has seen his wildest fictions become reality.
Julian Lucas New Yorker Jul 2021 30min Permalink
After the election of Narendra Modi in 2014, Muslim journalists covering Hindu extremism noticed a change. The masks came off; the facade of courtesy, once flimsy, crumbled altogether.
Mohammad Ali The Baffler Jul 2021 15min Permalink
The writer of a contentious piece of science fiction, “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” drew the internet’s ire. Now she tells her story.
Emily VanDerWerff Vox Jun 2021 25min Permalink
Gavin McInnes used to be known as a Vice magazine co-founder with controversial political leanings and an affinity for darkly unfunny jokes. Now, he’s also known as the founder of the far-right group the Proud Boys.
Adam Leith Gollner Vanity Fair Jun 2021 Permalink
The petty, vindictive, backbiting, lawsuit-laden, career-ruining infighting at everyone’s favorite local NY1 news station.
Caitlin Moscatello New York Jun 2021 35min Permalink
How China’s biggest audio platform funded one man’s frat boy dreams.
Ashley Carman The Verge Jun 2021 25min Permalink
In just a few years, he’s become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country—mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny?
Peter Kiefer Los Angeles Magazine Jun 2021 25min Permalink
Twenty-five years later, the BBC investigates its own reporter.
A cohort of journalists is drowning in burnout, trauma, and moral injury.
Olivia Messer Study Hall May 2021 Permalink
When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire.
Brad Stone Bloomberg Businessweek May 2021 20min Permalink
Tucker Carlson: The bow-tie is gone, but the moxie remains.
Joel Meares Columbia Journalism Review Aug 2011 15min Permalink