Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour “Sy” Hersh has a new memoir out, Reporter, that details his role in some of the biggest stories in recent American history, including the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam and abuses at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. In Reporter, however, Hersh also acknowledges a major story…
The trend of fictionalizing stories about breaking journalism for film continues, this time with Gal Gadot as our intrepid reporter.
Today Longreads posthumously published a piece journalist Kim Wall wrote with her writing partner Mansi Choski, filed just weeks before she boarded Peter Madsen’s submarine, the Nautilus, and disappeared.
There has never been a more fraught time to practice journalism in America, with the President regularly attacking the free press as “fake news” and undermining efforts to do the democratically crucial job of speaking truth to power, while some journalists have apparently become too comfortable in their access and…
The murder trial for Kim Wall, the Swedish journalist who went missing in August 2017 while reporting on Danish submarine inventor Peter Madsen, officially began in Copenhagen on Thursday. Madsen, who is charged with murdering and dismembering Wall, plead not guilty.
In Gabriel Sherman’s new profile of Steve Bannon for Vanity Fair, Bannon deflects the explicitly true suggestion that he has encouraged white supremacist and Nazi groups with an interesting anecdote.
Last week, the Associated Press published a nightmarish story about the mass rape of Rohingya women in the Rakhine district of Myanmar. Kristen Gelineau, AP bureau chief for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, interviewed 29 Rohingya women and girls who had escaped to refugee camps in Bangladesh; the stories…
The recent “revelations” that the media industry has its own problems with sexual assault and harassment begs the question: did the disregard that some male journalists feel for women’s safety and bodily autonomy translate into how they covered Hillary Clinton during the election?
President Donald Trump reportedly once uttered a sentence to a journalist that combines his two greatest passions: demeaning women, and rating things. That he allegedly said it to a reporter from Maximum Golf, once a real magazine, is just that much more obscenely on-the-nose.
After 16 years as EIC of Glamour, Cindi Leive is stepping down, next job unspecified. She will stay with the magazine through the end of the year.
It is truly the end of an era: Graydon Carter, the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, is stepping down in December, after 25 long years.
Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom, which ran for three seasons, was widely lambasted by critics for its overwrought depiction of what covering the news is like, and whatever was going on with Sam Waterston. The key detail of these reviews, however, was that they were critiques made by people working in the very industry…
A New York federal judge has dismissed Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, a much-needed win for freedom of the press in an era of alternative facts.
Last week, Vice News released a 22-minute documentary of the militant white men who descended upon Charlottesville to make clear that “Jewish communists and criminal niggers,” as one neo-Nazi put it, were not welcome in America. A neo-Nazi named Christopher Cantwell, who on Wednesday turned himself in for arrest on…
Early Thursday morning, Cosmopolitan.com published a profile of the founders of The Skimm, a somewhat controversial daily newsletter aimed at young women. The article mysteriously disappeared, and by mid-afternoon a heavily-edited and much friendlier version of the post had emerged without acknowledgement of the…
The University of Virginia chapter of Phi Kappa Psi has settled its defamation suit against Rolling Stone regarding allegations that some of its members participated in a gang rape, a claim that was put forth in the now-retracted 2014 article “A Rape on Campus.”
Police in Lexington, Kentucky are investigating suspected gunshots fired into the windows of the Lexington Herald-Leader’s downtown building on Sunday morning. It’s not yet known who did this or why, although it’s tough to ignore that the incident took place in a national and local environment of alarming hostility…
On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety starts with the worst: our protagonist is 20 years old, and she thinks she is dying. For those who have had a panic attack, the feeling will be a familiar one—a racing heart, blurry vision, various symptoms that often cannot be explained by the circumstances. And like author Andrea…
Vietnam War journalist Anne Morrissy Merick, a pioneer in her field, has died at age 83 from dementia-based complications.
In an interview aired on CBS’s Face the Nation, host John Dickerson backed Donald Trump into a literal corner over his baseless claim that Barack Obama wiretapped him at the Trump Tower. After Trump seemed to realized he would have to produce some hard facts, he cut the interview short and motioned for Dickerson to…