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Law/On Journalism

Felix Salmon: Peter Thiel’s campaign against Gawker is a template for crushing media

Posted on May 26, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Salmon makes a strong and highly unsettling argument: The next step, after the Hogan verdict, was for Thiel to go public. After the enormous damages were announ...

Culture/On Journalism

How A Billionaire Used a Wrestler to Get Revenge and Silence Gawker

Posted on May 25, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Angel investor Caterina Fake gets real on Peter Thiel: Generally, people avoid frivolous lawsuits because it often exposes them to as much scrutiny as those the...

Best Thing I Read Just Now/Culture/On Journalism/Readings

There are rants and there are rants. This here is a rant.

Posted on March 31, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

As Jezebel notes elsewhere, this bomb-throwing freelancer revenge rant burns bridges with admirable abandon. Been a while since I’ve read one quite so fun...

Genetics/Music/On Journalism/Photography/Read Two/Readings/War/Writing

Read Two: Severed heads, runaway PR, math gender, minimalism

Posted on August 11, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

How to Take a Picture of a Severed Head Or not. IS is working very hard to manage its media presence, and it’s working. By Sebastian Meyer and Alicia P.Q. Whitm...

On Journalism/Readings

How Mashable Aced the Malaysian Air Story

Posted on July 25, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I’ve said this before, but it’s nice to see it made particular: In calamity is opportunity, and this is true even in the tormented world that journa...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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