Big Fish: Jeff Novitzky vs. Lance Armstrong

There’s a determined man chasing Lance Armstrong, and he has a harpoon: Jeff Novitzky, a brilliant and relentless federal agent who’s out to prove that bike racing’s greatest champion cheated and lied.

Source: Outside
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 10 minutes (2,715 words)

How We Got Here and How We Get Out of Here

A lot of what we’re seeing online today is actually a return, full circle, to the way things were when American newspapers began; a mixture of advocacy and investigative in-your-face journalism. There is a long and distinguished history of such newspapers—from the papers that were fiercely loyal to Jefferson or Hamilton, to the abolitionist broadsheets, to the activist newspapers at the turn of the century. As my partner Arianna Huffington says, the mission of journalism has always been “truth-seeking, not striking some fictitious balance between two sides.” And anyway, who can doubt that it’s always been important to give consumers what they want.

Source: HuffPost
Published: Apr 24, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,573 words)

Rolling Stone 1976 Cover Story: Bob Marley with a Bullet

Anyone naive enough to wonder aloud why such a righteously rebellious, nonmaterialistic culture hero would own the same kind of car Michael Manley drives will be treated to a taste of fine Rasta logic: BMW stands for “Bob Marley and the Wailers.” And why does he submit to so many photo sessions? “I tell you what,” Marley says, “if the amount of records sell the amount of photo dem take — great! More than 2 million photo dem take already!”

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Aug 12, 1976
Length: 18 minutes (4,553 words)

Arianna Huffington Is a Brilliant, Captivating, Wickedly Funny Enemy of the Establishment. She Also May Be a World-Class Opportunist.

She is dogged by questions: Was she a gold digger who, in the 1980s, chose the rich and famous of Manhattan as her lode? In the 1990s, was she a Pompadour who used her wiles to maneuver her then-husband into a political career that advanced her own ambitions? Is she now a political chameleon whose coloration fits an ideology of convenience?

Published: Jul 30, 2000
Length: 19 minutes (4,758 words)

Arianna’s Virtual Candidate

California congressman Michael Huffington is a man of no apparent convictions, except one: that he deserves to be president of the United States. But first the multimillionaire Republican is running for the Senate. Pulling the strings is his wife, socialite Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the controversial author and New Age minister, who has a mysterious agenda of her own. The author lifts the curtain on their own private Oz.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Nov 1, 1994
Length: 34 minutes (8,668 words)

The Human Blog

Serial charmer and conservative turncoat Arianna Huffington reinvents herself yet again—as self-help guru and queen of connectedness.

Published: Oct 1, 2006
Length: 15 minutes (3,772 words)

The Oracle: The Many Lives of Arianna Huffington

Dish is her capital—the means by which she makes connections and maintains them. Because she defines the agenda for the Huffington Post, which defines the agenda for so many readers, passing a tidbit her way is, in a sense, an investment. Proprietary hints are the dividend. “She knows the best of everything, from the best person to do yoga with to the best person to do your facials,” Laurie David, the environmental activist, said recently. “If you need anything, you ask Arianna.”

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Oct 13, 2008
Length: 41 minutes (10,375 words)

Joyas Voladoras

Consider the hummingbird for a long moment. A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird’s heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A hummingbird’s heart is a lot of the hummingbird. Joyas Voladoras, flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas called them, and the white men had never seen such creatures, for hummingbirds came into the world only in the Americas, nowhere else in the universe, more than three hundred species of them whirring and zooming and nectaring in hummer time zones nine times removed from ours, their hearts hammering faster than we could clearly hear if we pressed our elephantine ears to their infinitesimal chests.

Source: jbleitz.com
Published: Oct 5, 2005
Length: 4 minutes (1,024 words)

The Things That Carried Him

The true story behind one soldier’s last trip home

Source: Esquire
Published: May 1, 2008
Length: 66 minutes (16,664 words)