Revenge, ego, and the corruption of Wikipedia

In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named “Qworty” made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded…
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5121 words)

Why Did Jodon Romero Kill Himself On Live Television?

Image by John Gara/Buzzfeed Friday, Sept. 28, 2012Denny's, 75th Avenue and Interstate 10, Phoenix, about 10:45 a.m.No one knows for sure how long Jodon Romero
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4970 words)

The Double Life Of A Gay Dodger

Originally published in the October 1982 issue of Inside Sports. The game is over and the baseball player sits in the hotel lobby, his eyes fixed on nothing. He thinks his secret is safe but he is…
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2013
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6542 words)

Outside the Lines: Mind Control

SAN DIEGO -- Inside the autopsy room of the San Diego County medical examiner's office, Bennet Omalu, a forensic pathologist, carefully sliced Junior Seau's brain with a long knife. It was late…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5395 words)

The Tsarnaev family: A faded portrait of an immigrant’s American dream

PUBLISHED: April 27, 2013
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4701 words)
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How Samsung Became the World's No. 1 Smartphone Maker

Illustration by Thomas TraumI’m in a black Mercedes-Benz (DAI) van with three Samsung Electronics PR people heading toward Yongin, a city about 45 minutes south of Seoul. Yongin is South Korea’s…
PUBLISHED: March 28, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4027 words)

How the Rutgers saga unfolded

Latest On Mike Rice Firing BRIDGEWATER, N.J. -- All Eric Murdock says he wanted to do was take a morning off to attend a summer basketball camp at his son's high school. Eric Murdock Jr. is a star…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4173 words)

That Other School Shooting

A makeshift memorial that appeared after seven people were killed by a gunman at Oikos University last April. On April 2 last year, a 43-year-old former nursing student named One L. Goh wa
PUBLISHED: March 28, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (767 words)

Long Night at Today

The knife springs open with a satisfying snap. Matt Lauer, the co-host of the Today show, turns it over in his hand, marveling at the blade. “Come to papa!” he says. Sitting at his…
AUTHOR:Joe Hagan
PUBLISHED: March 24, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (838 words)
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