Manti Te'o had a fake girlfriend. Rob Ford smoked crack. Brett Favre texted photos of his junk to a young woman. That these and countless other onetime secrets are now public knowledge is thanks to Nick Denton, the founder and owner of a network of news-and-gossip websites called Gawker Media. When…

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Photo Jilly Dos Santos organized an effort to push back her high school’s start time to 9 a.m. Credit Dan Gill for The New York Times COLUMBIA, Mo. – Jilly Dos Santos really did try to get to school on time. She set three successive alarms on her phone. Skipped breakfast. Hastily applied makeup…

Subscribe When I met David Remnick at his Upper West Side apartment last month, he had just returned from Sochi. It was very much a work trip. In addition to appearing on NBC as an Olympic commentator, Remnick wrote a lengthy piece on Vladimir Putin for The New Yorker , while also fulfilling his…

Photo: Cass Bird. Styling by Heidi Bivens at The Wall Group; Hair by Tommy Buckett for Garnier Fructis at The Magnet Agency; Makeup by Hung Vanngo for CK One Color Cosmetics at The Wall Group; Special thanks to the Greenwich Hotel. Denim overalls from What Goes Around Comes Around. Photo: Cass…

In the era of the Kindle, a book costs the same price as a sandwich. Dennis Johnson, an independent publisher, says that “Amazon has successfully fostered the idea that a book is a thing of minimal value—it’s a widget.” Construction by Ian Wright / Photograph by Ed Park Amazon is a global…

@TheStalwart @cdixon I haven’t found a single person who codes who thinks Dorian is credible as the creator. — Anil Dash (@anildash) March 9, 2014 I had a 2-hour phone conversation with Leah McGrath Goodman yesterday. Goodman wrote the now-notorious Newsweek cover story about Dorian Nakamoto, which…

Photo Kat McKerrow of Baltimore listening to an iPhone app called Calm, which offers guided meditation. Such apps have large followings, but researchers say their effects are difficult to measure. Credit Joshua McKerrow for The New York Times Wired Well Personal technology for health and fitness.…

Photo Credit Otto Steininger Wired Well Personal technology for health and fitness. For years, health advocates have been telling us to move more. But just how much more? A multitude of activity tracking devices now promise to answer that question. Generally, these digital monitors, which can be…

Illustration by Tom Bachtell In 1990, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn emerged from his isolation in Cavendish, Vermont, and issued a vatic manifesto entitled “How to Revitalize Russia.” Published at great length in Komsomolskaya Pravda, it was a document out of time, written in a prophetic nineteenth-century…

Devon Campbell-Williams, an inmate in Portland, Ore., will have insurance for the first time under the Affordable Care Act. Credit... Leah Nash for The New York Times In a little-noticed outcome of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, jails and prisons around the country are beginning to sign up…

William A. Ackman has made a $1 billion bet on Herbalife’s collapse, and lobbied aggressively for it. WASHINGTON — At a Midtown Manhattan steakhouse last June, William A. Ackman, the activist hedge fund manager who had bet a billion dollars on the collapse of the nutritional supplement company…

The Media Equation Not long ago, a friend at work told me I absolutely, positively must watch “Broad City” on Comedy Central, saying it was a slacker-infused hilarity. My reaction? Oh no, not another one. The vast wasteland of television has been replaced by an excess of excellence that is…

Family members of Firman Chandra Siregar, an Indonesian passenger of flight MH370, watched television at their home in Medan, Indonesia, on Sunday. Credit... Dedy Sahputra/European Pressphoto Agency SEPANG, Malaysia — More than 48 hours after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished, the mysteries…

Lives Credit... Illustration by Melinda Josie The day had been hot and long, beginning on the Cape Cod beach where we watched the bride marry her now-husband as the tide came in a few minutes too soon — or, more likely, the wedding happened just a few minutes too late — despite careful timing based…

Bitcoin fanciers should count themselves lucky that the entire world press has become obsessed with the cabaret over whether a 64-year-old Temple City software engineer is the Satoshi Nakamoto, the fabled mysterious/pseudonymous inventor/inventors of bitcoins. That’s because the pursuit of the…

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo with Mayor Bill de Blasio after Mr. de Blasio’s inauguration on Jan. 1. Credit... Adrees Latif/Reuters ALBANY — In his first two months in office, Mayor Bill de Blasio has found himself repeatedly at odds with New York’s governor, Andrew M. Cuomo. And at every turn, Governor…

Tech & Science This story has been appended to include a statement from Dorian Nakamoto received on March 19th when Newsweek was first contacted directly by Mr. Nakamoto's attorney, denying his role in Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto stands at the end of his sunbaked driveway looking timorous. And…

The New Smoke SAN FRANCISCO — Olivia Zacks, 17, recently took a drag of peach-flavored vapor from a device that most people would call an e-cigarette. But Ms. Zacks, a high school senior, does not call it that. In fact, she insists she has never even tried an e-cigarette. Like many teenagers, Ms.…

O ften, when there’s talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money. There’s the unending debate, for example, over Facebook’s News Feed algorithm and whose content they’re giving preference to . Or there are…

Quartz posts this graphic of New York Times Company revenues going back to 2003, asking “Can the New York Times’s online readership offset its prolonged ad slump?” The Times has very real problems, thank you very much, but they’re not this bad. This is a good example of a chart that’s technically…

Photo: Jeff Vespa/Getty Images It’s hard to count how many times Lupita Nyong’o has been called an “It” girl this awards season. “Lupita Nyong’o Crowned New ‘It’ Girl at Oscars 2014,” proclaims ABC News. Variety calls her “this year’s ingenue.” Nyong’o “ has everyone talking, and we mean everyone,”…

Waltham, September 11, 2011: Three men, throats slit, cash and drugs left on the bodies. Two years later, two dead suspects: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and a friend who the FBI says was about to confess. One haunting question: Could solving this case have prevented the Boston Marathon bombings? By ·…

Jerome Sessini/Magnum Photos Protesters in Kiev, Ukraine, February 19, 2014 From Moscow to London to New York, the Ukrainian revolution has been seen through a haze of propaganda. Russian leaders and the Russian press have insisted that Ukrainian protesters were right-wing extremists and then that…

Hayes has devoted the past fifteen years to studying atrazine, a widely used herbicide made by Syngenta. The company’s notes reveal that it struggled to make sense of him, and plotted ways to discredit him. Photograph by Dan Winters In 2001, seven years after joining the biology faculty of the…

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Updated at 2:00 p.m. ET on September 9, 2019. One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not…

Margaret Sullivan: The Other Big Winner in the WhatsApp Deal: Your Wallet. Interesting take from @fmanjoo: http://t.co/1pRURUFCfQ

solange knowles: Thank you @nprmusic, Ali Muhammad and Frannie Kelley for my now favorite interview ever. http://t.co/iWymVaM8oD

The interview below has been condensed and edited for clarity and length. Let’s flash back to seven years ago when you launched Goodreads. Can you tell me the founding story? Otis Chandler: In 2006, I moved to Los Angeles to be closer to Elizabeth. The company I was working at before had launched an…

[Update 14th Feb 2014: Following Pando's exposé, PBS has announced it will return John Arnold's $3.5m donation.] On December 18th, the Public Broadcasting Service's flagship station WNET issued a press release announcing the launch of a new two-year news series entitled "The Pension Peril." The…

The Quaaludes featuring the DT’s album cover, 2011. When Jordan Belfort—played by Leonardo DiCaprio in a truly masterful moment of full-body acting—wrenches himself from the steps of a country club into a white Lamborghini that he drives to his mansion, moviegoers, having already watched some two…

This week’s debt-limit drama ended as it began: with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), standing alone before his colleagues, seeking consensus but receiving only silence and stares in return. Video: Why debt ceiling deniers say there's no limit The scene happened Tuesday morning at the Capitol…

Photo: Ruven Afanador/New York Magazine To understand what the Man Repeller is about, all you really need to do is get hold of the home video of Leandra Medine playing with her brother at an Upper East Side gym. Their mother is holding the camera. Leandra is wearing, as protection against lice, a…

SIGNS OF STRUGGLE The makeshift shelter of a homeless person in downtown Ponce, a city on Puerto Rico’s southern coast. Credit... Alvin Baez/Reuters SAN JUAN, P.R. — Alexis Sotomayor has many reasons to stay in Puerto Rico: his two children; his mother and their gossip sessions over plates of fried…

Beau Willimon, the creator of the Netflix series “House of Cards,” in the TriBeCa writers’ room. Credit... Ruddy Roye for The New York Times At 6:45 a.m. on a September day in Baltimore, when the heat was already loitering in the 80s and would eventually flirt with 100 degrees, Beau Willimon, the…

An Appraisal Credit... Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin for The New York Times It was clear, at least since he won the Oscar in 2006 for “Capote,” that Philip Seymour Hoffman was an unusually fine actor. Really though, it was clear long before that, depending on when and where you started…

When Arthur Chu got the call saying he'd been selected to go on Jeopardy , his first move was thorough and decisive: He went to Google and typed in "jeopardy strategy." "I knew that just like in terms of my natural knowledge base, I wasn't ready to go on Jeopardy ," Chu told me on the phone this…