Sarah Ellison is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of War at the Wall Street Journal.

“There’s no lack of stories. ... There’s always an element where you’re going to be parachuting into something that someone has likely written about, to some degree. You can’t shy away from going into something that’s a crowded field.”

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Ellison on Longform

[00:15] 11/15: Longform Podcast, Live in Chicago with Kara Swisher

[00:45] 11/12: Longform Podcast, Live in Chicago with Zoe Chace

[03:00] Longform Podcast #111: Anne Helen Petersen

[03:00] Longform Podcast #224: Hua Hsu

[04:15] The Hive

[04:20] Ellison's Vanity Fair archive

[05:00] "Exiles on Pennsylvania Avenue: How Jared and Ivanka Were Repelled by Washington’s Elite" (Vanity Fair • Oct 2017)

[05:45] "The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War" (Vanity Fair • May 2017)

[07:30] Longform Podcast #254 Maggie Haberman

[12:30] "The Man Who Spilled Secrets” (Vanity Fair • Feb 2011)

[13:15] "Exclusive: Is Donald Trump’s Endgame the Launch of Trump News?" (Vanity Fair • June 2016)

[19:30] "Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades" (Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey • NY Times • Oct 2017)

[19:45] "Inside the Final Days of Roger Ailes’s Reign at Fox News" (Vanity Fair • Nov 2016)

[27:15]"After a Rape Story, a Murder, and Lawsuits: What’s Next for the Univeristy of Virginia?" (Vanity Fair • Oct 2015)

[30:00]"Diana’s Impossible Dream" (Vanity Fair • Sept 2013)

[34:35]War at the Wall Street Journal. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • May 2010)

[37:45]"Has Trump Turned CNN Into a House of Existential Dread?" (Vanity Fair • July 2017)

[37:45]"Has Megyn’s Star Already Been Eclipsed?" (Vanity Fair • Sept 2017)

[39:45]"Ghosts in the Newsroom" (Vanity Fair • Apr 2012)

[40:00]"Ex-New Republic Staffers Knew Chris Hughes Was Fed Up" (Vanity Fair • Jan 2016)

[40:00]"The Rules of Succession" (Vanity Fair • Dec 2011)

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