Until his passing in late July, Jonathan Gold celebrated food for decades in publications such as LA Weekly and The Los Angeles Times.
Matt Giles
Posted inBlog Post, Commentary, Media
One Dollar a Word? That’ll Be $28,000
Fresh off Watergate, Carl Bernstein next turned to expose the connection between the CIA and newspapers. For his efforts, he was paid $28,000. Inside one of publishing’s biggest boondoggles.
Posted inBlog Post, Commentary, Sports
Puma’s Ploy to Become Relevant in Basketball Again
Deandre Ayton and Marvin Bagley spurned Nike and Adidas to sign with Puma. This isn’t the first time the sneaker company has made basketball history.
Posted inEditor's Pick
In the Shadow of a King
Micah Wimmer examines an extraordinary—and tragic—confluence of events that happened 50 years ago: on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and the 1968 NBA finals between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, the first in which a black coach (Celtics great Bill Russell) guided a team to the NBA title.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Media
The Escapism of Bruce Springsteen
The appeal of Springsteen’s “Baby, we were born to run!”
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Becoming Spring Brucesteen: My Quest to Meet the Boss
It took Toniann Fernandez a decade after first leaving her New Jersey home to understand the appeal of Bruce Springsteen, the state’s officially sanctioned saint, and she tracks her various exploits this past year in what eventually becomes a futile attempt to meet the Boss.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Commentary, Culture
The Enduring Legacy of the Willie Lynch Hoax
Why Kanye referenced a nonexistent slave owner.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Reading List
The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners
This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.
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“Who Can Explain the Athletic Heart?”
Michael MacCambridge—author of 1997’s The Franchise, a classic in media reporting—deep-dives what to make of Sports Illustrated following Meredith’s acquisition of Time Inc, and how (and even whether) the once-essential magazine can continue to survive in a continuously evolving media landscape
