Media

Time for the media to start taking him seriously.

Theodore Gioia samples the American restaurant review at present and offers a recipe for the future.

As the project investigating hate in America comes to an end, we look back at reporting highlights and the impact of our work.

"WandaVision," Marvel's big show on Disney+ that follows Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany's Vision from the Avengers Infinity Saga, will now premiere in 2020 instead of 2021.

"A previous version of this post misidentified the type of clothing worn by the chicken in the drawing."

Inquiries into Jewish genes always seem to lead someplace ugly.

We researched why people were reluctant to talk about medical debt, and designed an outreach strategy based on what we learned.

Brace for some (more) hot takes about In-N-Out, barbecue and cast-iron pans.

There's only ever so much you can control at any job. You make the things you make as good as you can, at which point they are not really yours anymore.

Christopher Allen reported in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. Who was looking out for him?

It used to be easier to hide your wine cave.

An analysis of millions of articles shows how coverage of hot-button topics changed in the 2010s.

The social-media sensei and advertising executive has found a side hustle playing both mentor and middleman between hip-hop artists and brands.

This communal moment of mass culture has occasioned celebration as well as a bout of anxiety. Will it survive the algorithm — and should it?

More than 3,000 journalists lost their jobs in the 2019 media apocalypse, including workers at BuzzFeed, Deadspin, Sports Illustrated and Vice. These are some of their stories.

Journalism has had a rough year full of layoffs across the country, and Bloomberg Media, the company owned by the latest entrant in the 2020 Democratic primary, just made life worse for a handful of reporters.

The decade of the 2010s saw the rise of social media and the proliferation of digital tools that allow people to alter photos and videos. Here's what that combination brought us.

With all the bad news from 2019, at least these local reporters found a way to have a great time.

Canada's old white publishing institutions are a lesson in what happens when your media industry contracts: journalism no longer serves the reality of the country.

Stone Fox Bride made Molly Rosen Guy the face of bohemian weddings. Then her marriage ended.

To fact check is to assure readers, writers, and editors that great care is being taken—even if that care is, on some level, still superficial. A perfectly checked article, after all, can still be fundamentally wrong about its assumptions or conclusions.

The news comes as CEO Steph Korey apologizes for her behavior, saying she is "appalled" by how she spoke to her staff.

On the third anniversary of Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn, we look at how the professional social network is used by those just entering the workforce.

Has our investment in debunking worked?

The online magazine of the "intellectual dark web" is repackaging discredited race science.

The Washington Post just wants you to like its TikToks.

The engine of internet culture is chugging along, changed.

A broken system has lead to a massive credibility problem

How the news cycle can make myth out of tragedy and, at times, obscure those at the center of it.

Bedroom broadcasters are pumping out pods unchecked — and now, some are being accused of plagiarism, voyeurism, even scuppering lawsuits. Is this booming industry doomed?

In hardluck Youngstown, Ohio a reporter covers one last big story for his hometown newspaper.

The media likes to package stories of teachers begging for sick days and workers walking 20 miles to their jobs as feel-good tales of inspiration. But they are really just proof of societal failures.

From Donald Glover to Lena Waithe, here are the top actors, writers, directors and more that defined TV and films these past 10 years.

These TikToks tell a whole story.

How America's most famous gun rights organization came to view NRATV, its own streaming outlet, as a "distasteful and racist."

While the idea of a "landlord influencer" might seem strange, it's a niche that's existed for decades.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer struck a nerve during an interview with White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway when he asked about her husband's perspective on the impeachment proceedings.

Influencers who break type, like Mina Gerges or Jakiya Brown, have more than just an image. They have a story — and a plan.

As rumors of a sale brew, the frattish sports site's well-documented resistance to solidarity seems increasingly bankrupt.

Why it feels like everything is going haywire.

Vine both came into its own through black comedy and also needed black comedy to make itself bigger than a mobile app.

How a lowly WIRED columnist got caught up in a secret war at one of the world's biggest websites.

You couldn't ask for a better case study in this phenomenon of mass ignorance than the response to tweets and a Jezebel exposé about Vice and the Fader.

A handful of philosophers predicted our post-truth crisis decades ago. Everyone still hates them.

Dramatically shifting the website's priorities didn't make sense from a business perspective. Was something else going on?

One sales executive alleges she lost half of her assignments after the CEO replaced her with a former colleague from Playboy.

The Eater team divulges its top tips for better restaurant experiences.

For all of its unevenness, the show serves as a meta-textual commentary on the fatigue of decades of being a woman in the public eye.

Newspapers saw fax machines as a way to get breaking news to the masses, then as a way to reach the niches. Neither worked out.

On November 2, former music journalist Lauren Nostro published a tweet: "It's so wild that {redacted} is able to run an entire digital magazine when hes [sic] also running people out of the place because "he can't keep his dick in his pants."

Deadspin and Splinter were only the most recent victims of a culling that began many years ago.

Why public figures stopped apologizing.

Sofar claims to be "reimagining the live event experience." It's more like a typical promotion company, but born of classic sharing economy-era schemes.

Trader Joe's Instagram influencers, like Trader Joe's List and Trader Joe's Kitchen, let followers know when new products arrive.

"I thought that I would be safe from the robotic replacement campaign. But there's a new article-writing AI that might prove me wrong."

Columnist Drew Magary bids farewell to Deadspin, the sports site that imploded last week as its entire editorial staff resigned.

ABC News anchor Amy Robach was caught on camera — in what she calls a "moment of frustration" — lamenting that the network killed her story about Jeffrey Epstein three years ago.

A hard look at the massive layoffs at Sports Illustrated, the mass exodus of employees from Deadspin and the future of sportswriting.

My last story for the paper, a profile of local celebrity Carson King, was my most widely read—because it provoked a national controversy. The series of events it triggered also cost me my job.

A growth-hungry publishing company suppresses one of the week's most popular posts.