Episode 102: The Best Longform Journalism from 2017

Anthony and James go through their favorite pieces of longform journalism from 2017. These stories appeared in publications other than WatersTechnology.com. To read the best of Waters in 2017, you can read those here: https://www.waterstechnology.com/people/3451351/2017-a-year-in-profiles https://www.waterstechnology.com/industry-issues-initiatives/3464501/waters-wavelength-podcast-episode-101-the-top-10-stories-of-2017 https://www.waterstechnology.com/industry-issues-initiatives/3456881/best-of-2017-the-top-trends Weinstein’s Complicity Machine New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/us/harvey-weinstein-complicity.html?src=longreads Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies Ronan Farrow (New Yorker) https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies?src=longreads London Bridge is Down Sam Knight (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge PPE, the Oxford Degree that Runs Britain Andy Beckett (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/23/ppe-oxford-university-degree-that-rules-britain Left Behind Sarah O’Connor (Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/b6dbf34e-c987-11e7-aa33-c63fdc9b8c6c How the Sandwich Consumed Britain Sam Knight (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwich-consumed-britain America Beyond Detention Texas Observer https://www.texasobserver.org/america-beyond-detention/ Dwayne Johnson for President Caity Weaver (GQ) https://www.gq.com/story/dwayne-johnson-for-president-cover Deliverance From 27,000 Feet John Branch (NY Times) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everest-deaths.html?_r=0 The Baby in the Plastic Bag Bernt Jakob Oksnes (Dagdablet) https://www.dagbladet.no/spesial/the-baby-in-the-plastic-bag/ The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest Fuck-Up Jeff Pearlman (Deadspin) https://deadspin.com/the-fallout-from-sportswritings-filthiest-fuck-up-1797691830 What Bullets do to Bodies Jason Fagone (HuffPo) http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gun-violence/ A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (GQ) https://www.gq.com/story/dylann-roof-making-of-an-american-terrorist How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down Caitlin Dickerson (NY Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/magazine/how-fake-news-turned-a-small-town-upside-down.html?_r=1