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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Catherine Seipp and the Network That Replaced the Newsroom
Catherine Seipp (1957-2007) watched American media change from inside a city the rest of the press treated as a backwater. She held no large platform. She edited no major paper, hosted no national broadcast, owned no media company. She worked … Continue reading
NYT: ‘Why Does No One Care About the World Cup This Year?’
David Wallace-Wells writes: What is more striking to me is the muted interest of the rest of the world, which every four years for decades seemed almost to pause for a month to engage in a truly global but appealingly … Continue reading
Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists
Most rich men quarrel with reporters as subjects of coverage. Sheldon Adelson (1933-2021) did that, and then he did more. He sued reporters. He bought the newspaper that covered him. He founded a newspaper in another country and ran it … Continue reading
Autumn Gold: Secrecy, Time, and the Recovery of Truth
On the surface the new feature documentary Autumn Gold tells the story of veterans exposed to chemical and biological weapons testing during the Cold War, and of the journalist who carried their accounts into public view. Beneath that story sits … Continue reading
Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas
The story of Steve Wynn (b. 1942) and the reporters who covered him reaches past one casino executive and the writers who tracked him. It opens onto the relationship between concentrated private wealth and the institutions meant to scrutinize it. … Continue reading
The Workplace City: John L. Smith and the Lives Behind Las Vegas
A fourth-generation Nevadan, John L. Smith (b. 1960) wrote a column for the Las Vegas Review-Journal for nearly three decades, worked earlier at the Las Vegas Sun, and now contributes a Sunday column to The Nevada Independent. His byline has … Continue reading
The Man on the Floor: Peter Berg and the Cinema of Competence
Peter Berg (b. 1964) works as a director, producer, writer, and actor. His films and television share a subject. He studies how organizations function under pressure, what happens when systems fail, and why some men keep doing their jobs while … Continue reading
Who Governs: The Work of Taylor Sheridan
Taylor Sheridan (b. 1970) is America’s leading storyteller. He writes the scripts, directs many of the episodes, produces the series, and owns much of the land and livestock his cameras record. Over a single decade he revived the Western for … Continue reading
Ben Mezrich: Mythographer of Disruption
Ben Mezrich (b. 1969) writes at the border of narrative journalism, commercial fiction, business history, and cinematic storytelling. Over a quarter century he is a chronicler of the digital economy and a leading popular narrator of technological disruption. His books … Continue reading