Longreads Best of 2016: Business & Tech Reporting

We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in business and tech reporting. Read more…

We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in business and tech reporting. Read more…
How the president-elect is already mixing personal business with leading the United States.
Mindfullness apps: is there actually any benefit to this kind of bite-sized meditation. And what, exactly, are we trying to be mindful of?
Today, there are more great shows on television than ever before. This age of Peak TV is reshaping the television industry — and affecting the work of everyone, from actors and writers to showrunners and crew members.
Ocean Spray CEO Randy Papadellis once rescued the cranberry industry by popularizing “Craisins.” Can he rescue them again?

Seven years ago this month I started Longreads. To say the word “longread” has taken hold beyond my wildest expectations would be an understatement. It was a Twitter hashtag experiment — which I started because I wanted story recommendations for my subway commute — that turned into a company, a meme, an original publisher, and, of course, an endless cycle of writers debating whether longform storytelling is good or bad for the internet. (Well, thank god for that.) Read more…
Story picks by Sheelah Kolhatkar, Nitasha Tiku, John Herrman, Ashlee Vance, Kevin Roose, and Mark Armstrong.

We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in specific categories. Here, the best in business and tech.
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How a love triangle involving a dean and two married professors blew up at Stanford’s prestigious business school.
Jeff Hull’s Latitude Society explores the possibilities of art, intimacy, experience, and membership.
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