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Robin Williams’ lost interview is as poignant as you’d expect

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What is Mara Wilson afraid of?

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Watch a 13-year-old Janet Jackson interview Michael about music

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Our interview with ‘Emma Approved’ stars Brent Bailey and Joanna Sotomura

Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions,  and the Village Voice. He&#8217;s the author of two odd books of fiction, &#8216;Ivyland&#8217; and &#8216;True False.&#8217;

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We interviewed daredevil Bello Nock, who’s sitting on a high wire over Times Square

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An interview with Dillon the Hacker, teenage ‘leader’ of 4chan and Anonymous

Aja Romano is a geek culture reporter and fandom expert. Their reporting at the Daily Dot covered everything from Harry Potter and anime to Tumblr and Gamergate. Romano joined Vox as a staff reporter in 2016.

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Sharknados and Starships: For RiffTrax’s Mike Nelson, the post-MST3K world is sweet

Chase Hoffberger reported on YouTube, web culture, and crime for the Daily Dot until 2013, when he joined the Austin Chronicle. Until late 2018, he served as that paper’s news editor and reported on criminal justice and politics.

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How Adam Savage and ‘MythBusters’ tell stories through science

A former senior politics reporter for the Daily Dot, Kevin Collier focuses on privacy, cybersecurity, and issues of importance to the open internet. Since leaving the Daily Dot in March 2016, he has served as a reporter for Vocativ and a cybersecurity correspondent for BuzzFeed.

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Gaby Dunn is an actress, comedian, and blogger who covered YouTube for the Daily Dot. Since 2016, she’s hosted the podcast ‘Bad with Money,’ and operates a successful YouTube channel. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Vice, and Salon.

Gaby Dunn

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Behind the scenes of ‘MyMusic’ with Benny Fine

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An interview with LulzCart, Romania’s most notorious hacker

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Treat me like a stranger: An interview with Gotye

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