Jesse Barron is an award-winning journalist and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, where he focuses on criminal justice and financial crime. His article “The Girl From Plainville” was adapted into the Hulu series of the same name, for which he was a producer.

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Adam Eaglin

The Cheney Agency

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Film/TV

Michelle Kroes

CAA

michelle.kroes@caa.com

Selected Writing

How Do You Rebuild a Place Like the Palisades?
NYT Magazine
2025
How Four Posts on Instagram Destroyed Her Life
NYT Magazine
2024
How Two Irish Businessmen Almost Took Nigeria for $11 Billion
NYT Magazine
2024
A Homeless Man Attacked Him. But Was There More to the Story?
NYT Magazine
2023
Inside The Making of The Girl From Plainville
Esquire
2022
The Judge and the Case That Came Back to Haunt Him
NYT Magazine
2022
The Mystery of the $133 Million Deli
NYT Magazine
2021
The Soft Sell
New York
2021
What Happened Inside Ed Buck’s Apartment
NYT Magazine
2020
How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
NYT Magazine
2019
The Curious Case of Aurelius Capital v. Puerto Rico
NYT Magazine
2019
How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich
GQ
2018
The Bounty Hunter of Wall Street
NYT Magazine
2017
The Girl From Plainville
Esquire
2017