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Why Did The New York Times Delete A Notorious Fraudster’s Election Take?
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Albert Burneko
July 26, 2024
Politics
BidenWatch: We’re In The Take Zone [Update]
344
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Tom Ley
July 21, 2024
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Wings Week
BuzzFeed Is The Reason It Can’t Sell ‘Hot Ones’
190
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Alex Sujong Laughlin
July 17, 2024
NHL
What’s The Use Of Insiders If They Only Scoop Press Releases?
81
Comments
Heather Wei-Xi Chen
July 12, 2024
This Is So Stupid
An Attempt To Draw This Overstuffed Sentence About Klay Thompson Leaving The Warriors
99
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Samer Kalaf
July 3, 2024
Journalismism
The Podcast Industry Has Learned Nothing
161
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Alex Sujong Laughlin
June 27, 2024
Journalismism
Journalism Is Activism
233
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Drew Magary
June 19, 2024
Journalismism
The ‘Longform’ Podcast Told The Story Of An Industry
53
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Owen Lewis
June 14, 2024
NBA
Lakers’ Messy Coaching Search Revives The Scoopster Standoff Between Woj And Shams
103
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Patrick Redford
June 12, 2024
Tennis
Defector Blogger Calls Aggregator Tweets “Pathetic” In Furious Takedown. Do You Agree?
102
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Owen Lewis
June 12, 2024
Podcasts
Staying On Paul Schrader’s Good Side, With Stephen Rodrick
85
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David Roth
May 23, 2024
NBA
Whomst Has Brought The Ass?
205
Comments
Justin Ellis
May 22, 2024
WNBA
On The Caitlin Clark Beat, Everyone’s Plotting
85
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Maitreyi Anantharaman
May 20, 2024
The Machines
If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?
171
Comments
Albert Burneko
May 14, 2024
Journalismism
Why Don’t People Trust The Man That Gave FAMU $237 Million?
199
Comments
Israel Daramola
May 10, 2024
Margin Of Error
Going Off Script
214
Comments
Tom Scocca
May 3, 2024
Journalismism
They Are Insecure For A Reason
740
Comments
David Roth
April 30, 2024
Journalismism
The New York Times Ignores Reality In Pursuit Of Objectivity
146
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Patrick Redford
April 18, 2024
Journalismism
How Do You Get Americans To Care About A War?
Ethiopia's not hard to get to. It's very hard to sell as a story.
233
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Casey Taylor
April 17, 2024
WNBA
Wokeness Run Amok: WNBA’s Pro-Trans Agenda Prevents Dolt From Understanding Calendar
197
Comments
Tom Ley
April 16, 2024
Media Meltdowns
Sports Illustrated Owner Sues Former Publisher Over Bungled Leverage Play
120
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Patrick Redford
April 2, 2024
NFL
Sauce Gardner Is In The Muck With Everyone Else
258
Comments
Israel Daramola
March 28, 2024
Journalismism
You Never Get The Full Story
110
Comments
Alex Sujong Laughlin
March 27, 2024
The Fights
How Bloody Elbow Lost Its Soul
55
Comments
Trent Reinsmith
March 21, 2024
Capital
The Coffee Machine That Explained Vice Media
186
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David Roth
March 19, 2024
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