Sam Thielman

Sam Thielman is the editor at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. He has worked as a reporter for Variety, The Guardian, and Talking Points Memo and as a consultant for Comedy Central’s The President Show. His reporting and criticism have been published by the Columbia Journalism Review, NBC, and The Daily Beast, and his essay No Matter How Your Heart Is Grieving was selected by Slate as one of the best pieces published by online literary magazine The Toast. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

‘STUFF LIKE THIS’

This Graphic Novel Is the Moby-Dick of Tabloid Murders

“From Hell” is a masterpiece that asks how closely art can get to misogyny without becoming misogyny.

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Outside Agitators?

NYPD Says Looters Stash Bricks. These Locals Say Otherwise

The White House shared a clip from the New York City police commissioner suggesting dangerous looters were collecting bricks for violence. The reality is more complicated.

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YAWN

Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You’ve Napped Through the Last Decade

The Facebook chief rolled out his pivot to privacy—as if his company hasn’t been caught lying about protecting customer data over and over and over again.

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EULOGY

Ditko’s Genius Made Him Something He Disdained—A Celebrity

For the artist who gave the world Spider-Man, the focus was entirely on his work, and he wanted other people’s focus there, too.

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