Who Is the 'Editor'?
I’ve been in media since 2013, working with various editors, for various publications, under various budgets. Every…
Groundbreaking Hip-Hop Journalist Dee Barnes Says She's Currently Homeless
Dee Barnes, who became one of the first women hip-hop journalists to have her own show in the 1980s with Pump It Up, is…
Court Rules That Shitty Media Men List Creator Can't Be Sued for Emotional Distress, Questions Relevance of Her Tweets About 'Hating Men'
A federal judge in Brooklyn on Friday ruled that in the ongoing lawsuit against Moira Donegan, the creator of the…
Jane Mayer Once Stole Back Her Dog From Laura Ingraham
Jane Mayer is many things: a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, an author, an incisive investigative reporter. But…
The Madwoman in the Newsroom
The stereotype of the incompetent, irrational woman journalist is resurgent. She is familiar and she’s bad news: she’s…
How a Woman Disappears from the History Books
The New York Times Magazine recently published a lengthy cover story on “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon…
Teen Vogue Contributor Permanently Suspended From Twitter Over Tweet Directed at TERFs [Updated]
Danielle Corcione—a freelance journalist who writes for Teen Vogue, ReWire, and other outlets—had their Twitter account …
Stop Being So Skeptical of Young Women
Last night, New York made history: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic socialist candidate from the…
If Seymour Hersh Didn't Report on Nixon's Alleged Spousal Abuse, What Else Don't We Know?
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour “Sy” Hersh has a new memoir out, Reporter, that details his…
Gal Gadot Knows Movies About Journalism Are Hot, Hot, Hot
The trend of fictionalizing stories about breaking journalism for film continues, this time with Gal Gadot as our…
Read Journalist Kim Wall's Last Piece on the Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers
Today Longreads posthumously published a piece journalist Kim Wall wrote with her writing partner Mansi Choski, filed…
The Fourth Estate Is a Crucial Look Into How the New York Times Covers Trump
There has never been a more fraught time to practice journalism in America, with the President regularly attacking the…
Submarine Inventor Charged With Kim Wall's Murder Pleads Not Guilty
The murder trial for Kim Wall, the Swedish journalist who went missing in August 2017 while reporting on Danish…
Do We Really Need Steve Bannon's 'Unfettered Thoughts'? Again?
In Gabriel Sherman’s new profile of Steve Bannon for Vanity Fair, Bannon deflects the explicitly true suggestion that…
An AP Reporter on Journalistic Empathy and Documenting Mass Rape in Myanmar
Last week, the Associated Press published a nightmarish story about the mass rape of Rohingya women in the Rakhine…
Surprise: The Shitty Men of Media Were Not Great to Hillary
The recent “revelations” that the media industry has its own problems with sexual assault and harassment begs the…
Trump Reportedly Told a Journalist in 2000 That 'There Is Nothing in the World Like First-Rate Pussy'
President Donald Trump reportedly once uttered a sentence to a journalist that combines his two greatest passions:…
Cindi Leive Steps Down as Editor-in-Chief of Glamour
After 16 years as EIC of Glamour, Cindi Leive is stepping down, next job unspecified. She will stay with the magazine…
Graydon Carter Is Stepping Down After 25 Years at Vanity Fair
It is truly the end of an era: Graydon Carter, the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, is stepping down in December, after…
The Bold Type Transcends Cosmopolitan's Concept of Itself
Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom, which ran for three seasons, was widely lambasted by critics for its overwrought depiction…