Behind the byline · Notes
The cuts that didn't survive legal.
Scoop · App-only
Stories before they hit the feed.
Investigations land here first. The wider net comes later.
Wellness influencers diagnosing cancer. Lifestyle creators "investigating" cults. Mark Ebner has spent four decades doing the actual reporting — eight books, bylines from Spy to The Daily Beast, the 1996 undercover Scientology cover, the 2007 Cosby story filed seven years before the rest of the press caught up. The app puts that work in your feed.
Hot takes packaged as investigations. Threads as primary sourcing. Vibes where receipts used to be.
The platforms surface the loudest take, not the most accurate one. Careful reporting doesn't go viral. Slop does.
The publications that funded six-month investigations have either folded, paywalled, or pivoted to chum. The reporters are still here. The home for the work isn't.
New stories drop in the app before anywhere else. Same reporting pipeline that produced the Spy Scientology cover and the Daily Beast Cosby file — early window, app subscribers only.
Source notes. Documents. Cuts that didn't make it past legal. The work between the published draft and what you read — never published anywhere else.
When a celebrity scandal, cult surfacing, or evangelical collapse hits the feed, you get a working journalist's read — not another poster recycling the same press release.
Native to social formats — short video, image posts, longer essays — but reported the way a magazine investigation gets reported. The medium is the feed. The work is journalism.
Investigative journalist. Four decades on the celebrity, cult, and organized-crime beats.
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