Hello dear friends and welcome to our new blog! We are very excited to show you what we have in store for you. Right now, though, you might be wondering why you are encountering yet another website dedicated to the lives of the rich and famous as if there weren’t enough sites about them already.

Well, we hope to deliver something different from the random bits you probably see online; we want to offer you the polar opposite of that by giving detailed articles about a specific celebrity or event, so you can see the full picture rather than a mere facet. We don’t want to turn into a yellow paper, printing lies and existing solely to bait people into clicking on their articles.

We want to pursue this project in a different way, allowing you, the reader, to come to your own conclusions based on our reporting on a certain matter. We hope we can deliver on our promises and present you with a deep dive into the lives of celebrities you care about.

A New Type of Journalism

This isn’t a wholly original idea; arguably, it started with YouTube, where you can now find hundreds of channels that post video essays on a certain topic and offer you a deep dive into it, not sparing any detail along the way.

This isn’t that common in journalism, but we feel like it would be soon. Of course, there are opinion pieces, as well as long investigative pieces, some of which have already given birth to hit films and TV shows like Spotlight, centred around a team of journalists that uncover horrific abuse by priests, and Inventing Anna, the hit Netflix show about the fake heiress Anna Delvey.

These types of media have proven to be very successful with readers and viewers, which suggests that it should be a niche that has to be explored more since there is an active interest in stories like that.

Important Dates and Events in Celebrity Journalism

Surely, celebrity journalism has changed a lot over the years. This is why we decided to give you an interesting timeline of significant events for celebrity journalism over the last few centuries. Celebrity journalism arguably started with reports on royal families and other nobilities, while it now covers everyone from Princess Catherine to the latest TikTok star.

We handpicked the events we found to be of note and those that are just funny and/or curious. Here’s our timeline of celebrity journalism over the years:

  • 1688 – Queen Mary Beatrice of England gave birth to a baby boy, James, but the boy’s older half-sisters and many Protestant papers at the time decried him as a changeling (switched at birth), which likely led to him losing the throne to his sister Mary.
  • 1780’s – French newspapers continuously printed gossip about Queen Marie Antoinette, perhaps fueled by her gender, nationality, and taste for luxury. These falsehoods greatly contributed to her downfall.
  • 1957 – The New Yorker commissioned Truman Capote to write a profile on Marlon Brando, which revealed many insights about the actor’s work and his private life, kickstarting a revolution in celebrity journalism.
  • 1972 – the Watergate scandal was exposed to the populace after brilliant investigative journalism by The Washington Post, Time, and The New York Times.
  • 1995 – Princess Diana gave an interview to the BBC reporter Martin Bashir where she revealed her husband’s infidelity and her own. This interview became iconic and it’s now been turned into a film and an episode of the show The Crown.
  • 1997 – Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on the cover of Time magazine, sparking a great outrage at the time.
  • 2017 – Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of numerous sexual abuse cases after hit pieces were written on him by The New York Times and The New Yorker, kickstarting the #MeToo movement.
  • 2020 – the #FreeBritney movement started, exposing the star’s strict conservatorship that ultimately ended a year later, probably as a result of media attention.
  • 2021 – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave an interview on Oprah about why they left the Royal Family, leading to a continuous news cycle that spawned articles for months.