Society’s darker underbelly now has a permanent home inside the pages of the New York Times, as journalist Mosi Secret– yep that’s his real name- is the first ever Sin and Vice reporter for the newspaper. His recent article Behind the Red Door detailed the back room sex at an underground strip club- or more accurately, a brothel for professional men. The boyish-looking 34 year old- a Harvard alum originally from Atlanta- spent the last three years covering social services and courtrooms for the Times before being tapped for the creative gig, an idea cultivated by editor Dean Chang.
Chang does not wish to provoke as his idea was to cover things, places, and issues that wouldn’t have a voice in the metro section- until now- and also feels that one of the more compelling things you could ever cover in New York was sin. Although Secret grew up in a very religious and moral environment- his dad is a criminal defense attorney- the former reporter at ProPublica and alternative weeklies envisions his new job as writing about everything from high-stakes poker games to religious hypocrisy, Chinatown’s underworld, and bankers misbehaving. He enjoys crafting language and this assignment allows him to do that. He’s also looking forward to getting out into the streets and working on a beat that affords him the opportunity to do long-form, narrative features, which he excels at. The secret is out.
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