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How Karina Longworth Is Reimagining Classic Hollywood—and the Podcast—in ‘You Must Remember This’
“I have consciously tried to refocus my attention away from being a film critic and toward being a film historian.”
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
How Karina Longworth Is Reimagining Classic Hollywood—and the Podcast—in ‘You Must Remember This’
“I have consciously tried to refocus my attention away from being a film critic and toward being a film historian.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Showtime, Synergy: Exclusive Early Access to a New Story from The Awl and Matt Siegel
This week, we are excited to give Longreads Members exclusive early access to a new story from Matt Siegel, to be published next week on The Awl. Here’s more from The Awl co-founder and editor Choire Sicha: “Matt Siegel’s very funny nonfiction story of love, deceit and betrayal (oh my God, I know!!!) comes on […]
Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction
Showtime, Synergy: Exclusive Early Access to a New Story from The Awl and Matt Siegel
This week, we are excited to give Longreads Members exclusive early access to a new story from Matt Siegel, to be published next week on The Awl. Here’s more from The Awl co-founder and editor Choire Sicha: “Matt Siegel’s very funny nonfiction story of love, deceit and betrayal (oh my God, I know!!!) comes on […]
Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction
Showtime, Synergy: Exclusive Early Access to a New Story from The Awl and Matt Siegel
This week, we are excited to give Longreads Members exclusive early access to a new story from Matt Siegel, to be published next week on The Awl. Here’s more from The Awl co-founder and editor Choire Sicha: “Matt Siegel’s very funny nonfiction story of love, deceit and betrayal (oh my God, I know!!!) comes on […]
Posted inGuest Pick, Nonfiction
Sasha Belenky on Jeanne Marie Laskas's 'The People V. Football'
Sasha Belenky is a senior editor at The Huffington Post. Whether it’s negotiating murder-for-hire with a fake hit man or visiting old stomping grounds with the vice president of the United States, if you’re in the car with Jeanne Marie Laskas, you’re pretty much guaranteed that the story will be good. I’ve found myself most […]
Posted inEditor's Pick
Six Degrees of Aggregation
The complete origins story of the Huffington Post. How Arianna Huffington, Ken Lerer and Jonah Peretti first connected, and how they turned the company into a media empire, and now Pulitzer winner: “In the course of a few hours, Peretti would watch with wonderment as Arianna Huffington eased herself from setting to setting, all the […]
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BuzzFeed, the Ad Model for the Facebook Era?
Inside the social media factory created by former Huffington Post cofounder Jonah Peretti—how they’ve cracked viral content, invested in original content, and made money: “At around 5 p.m., Stopera published ’48 Pictures That Perfectly Capture the ’90s’ on BuzzFeed. ‘These pictures are all that and a bag of chips!’ he wrote at the top of […]
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Huffington’s Cultural Revolution
You can change the particulars however you want, and set the time anytime you want. Some examples: The website, famous for its slideshows and linkbait, wants real reporting now; the magazine, famous for its celebrity profiles and fashion spreads, wants features on the state of women in Afghanistan; the newspaper, famous for its discounting of […]
