Jesse Barron is an investigative journalist based in Los Angeles. He is 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.

Selected Writing

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

Contact

Email
jesse.barron@nytimes.com

Literary
Adam Eaglin
The Cheney Agency
adam@cheneyagency.com

Film/TV
Michelle Kroes
CAA
michelle.kroes@caa.com