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.

Contact
Literary

Adam Eaglin

The Cheney Agency

adam@cheneyagency.com

Film/TV

Michelle Kroes

CAA

michelle.kroes@caa.com

Selected Writing

Transference in the Afternoon
Granta
2026
A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible?
NYT Magazine
2025
Los Angeles, Indiana
Granta
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
Inside The Making of The Girl From Plainville
Esquire
2022
The Judge and the Case That Came Back to Haunt Him
NYT Magazine
2022
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 Bounty Hunter of Wall Street
NYT Magazine
2017
The Girl From Plainville
Esquire
2017