Lachlan Cartwright

Lachlan Cartwright was editor at large for The Daily Beast from July 2021 to January 2024. From May 2018 to July 2021 he was a senior reporter and covered stories at the nexus of power, crime, celebrity and justice. He created and helmed the must-read media newsletter Confider and was formerly an executive editor at American Media Inc. Prior to that he was a column editor and reporter at the New York Daily News and before that a reporter at the New York Post and a reporter and news editor at The Sun in London.

‘True Motivations’

RFK Jr.’s Lover Olivia Nuzzi is Trying To Silence Me Says Ex

Ryan Lizza says he has “nothing to hide” in new court documents obtained by the Beast.

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A photo illustration showing Will Lewis and Robert Murdoch leaving News International headquarters on July 15, 2011 in London, England.

Murdoch’s Long Shadow

New WaPo Chief Angered His Ex-Staff During Hacking Crisis

Will Lewis was tasked with cleaning up News Corp’s hacking scandal in Britain—and ex-colleagues say he threw them to the wolves to protect the powerful.

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Photo illustration of David Gelles with a delete button over his mouth.

BRINGING THE HEAT

NYT Correspondent Nixes Eyebrow-Raising Climate Change Post

David Gelles touted remarks he made at a dinner in Davos about climate change—but some of his colleagues questioned whether he violated the newspaper’s ethics guidelines.

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