A good story is a powerful thing.

A good story can change laws, change lives, even change history.

I approached you to this idea.

Vladimir Putin's rise to power may have all been done by a false flag operation.

A good story can take you inside one of America's most notorious criminal minds.

Well, he's penned pals with John Wayne Gacy, serial killer,

or expose a city Hollywood underbelly.

His allegation was that Brian Singer sexually assaulted him, right?

But in order for a good story to do any of that, it has to get published.

I can't remember the first time I had to tell an author that we were killing his or her story,

but happened all the time.

In the savage world of journalism, where you're only as good as your last byline,

stories don't just get canceled. They get killed.

He's dead. Holy shit.

I'm Justin Harmon. I spent a decade at some of the biggest magazines in the world.

In my new series, Killed, you'll hear from the journalists who were in the rooms

where thousands of words disappeared into thin air.

She hadn't even seen to be right. They had just killed it.

There was no journalistic legal, fact-based reason to kill that story.

You'll get the inside scoop on all the drama.

Did you write it? Did you write it? I had a few other questions.

Not to bore.

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