New York Times – Declan Hill – Investigative Journalist & Academic

29JunJune 29, 2026

The Good, the Bad, and the Unmentioned: The Dreadful New York Times Investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

The New York Times, finally, got around to investigating Jeffrey Epstein's death. Their work was so bad that they should not have bothered. The New York Times’ view of the Epstein prison death It was a hit job. A well-executed, professional media execution. The entire investigation by the New York Times of Jeffrey Epstein’s death in prison promised so much but delivered so little. Why would the Times print such a hatchet job? Well, they wouldn’t they… This is a media outlet that...

08NovNovember 8, 2024

He Worked in a Whore House – Letter from America 5 – Why Trump Won

Why Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris and why the Democratic Leadership or the Media will never admit that they have failed. He worked in a whore house. He was a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang - a 1%er. At various points in his career, he claimed help run their protection business, sold drugs, and worked as the ticket man in a Bronx brothel filled with 18-year-old sex workers from the Dominican Republic and run by a shady Greek businessman. Last week,...

11JulJuly 11, 2019

Sex as the Coin of Corruption

Its not about sex. You might think that it was all about sex if you read many of the articles on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Epstein is the wealthy New Yorker financier indicted for sexual trafficking of potentially hundreds of underage girls. The media is full of salacious stories presented in an ‘Evils-of-Pornography-we-bring-you-a-26-part-special-investigation’ style. These stories feature tales of massages, recruitment of other teenagers and lots of bodily parts. All of these stories spectacularly miss the point. This case is...

14MayMay 14, 2018

The Pearl Harbor of U.S. Sports Gambling: 7 points on the Supreme Court Decision

There are certain days and events in history where everything changes. One day is ‘before’ - then the event happens and everything is changed ‘after’ that moment. You can choose your personal moment in history: September 11th, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Pearl Harbor, Black Tuesday and the Great Depression, the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, etc, etc… Today, in sports, was one of those events. The American Supreme Court struck down a decades-old law prohibiting sports gambling in the United...

05DecDecember 5, 2017

Suspicious Games in the Champions League & the Great Olympic Scandal

Interesting week in international sports. Lets start with the Champions League where once again we have a ‘choke-point’ where games are regularly fixed. Here is the scenario. You are a UEFA investigator. The rest of the world thinks that you have unlimited resources and money coming out of your elbows. You know that if you’re lucky, the system will give you a bent paper clip and an elastic band for resources to stop corruption in Europe’s premier competition – the Champions League. So...

20SepSeptember 20, 2016

The ‘Secret’ Report for WADA

Below is the confidential paper on building an investigative culture in a corrupt sports world that I wrote for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Think Tank held in Lausanne on September 20th. It was supposed to be secret but some craven twit leaked it to his pals in the media within 24-hours of it being circulated. Now that a number of journalists have read it, I have no hesitation in making it public. The headlines are: 1) World Anti-Doping Agency is not...