About
Breaker was founded to cover the stories that flow through downtown Manhattan — money, scandal, media, business, entertainment, technology, art, fashion, the deeply weird — in a weekly newsletter and podcast that aim to tell you things you did not already know about the worlds that matter.
We love tabloids for the sharpness of their reporting and their relentless drive to entertain you. We love broadsheets and magazines for their sweeping and nuanced tales. We want to combine both. We are totally independent, and are not partisan — we resist only boredom — and that means we are beholden to nothing except following the story wherever it goes.
We try and break through the noise, and set the agenda not follow it — we’ve made news about Donald Trump, the Murdochs, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein and child sex abuse at the highest levels of the Catholic Church.
We are working with Beehiiv, the publishing platform, as part of its Media Collective, which will provide infrastructure for the newsletter and this website. We plan to partner with other platforms and companies to build a network of independent journalists.
Bio
Lachlan Cartwright has reported from Australia, London and across the United States over a 20 year career in journalism. He has written for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, The Ankler and The Hollywood Reporter. He was appointed the first online news editor of The Sun at 25 and went on to create and helm the media newsletter Confider.
He has broken agenda setting stories about the Murdochs, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein and child sex abuse at the highest levels of the Catholic Church. He also covered Michael Jackson’s death, the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the NYC bike path terror attack. In 2016 he broke a series of stories that were under restrictive “super injunctions” in the UK, which led London law firms to advise clients against the practice. He has also appeared on television and radio across the world.
He wrote the cover story for the New York Times magazine about the role he played in Donald Trump’s “catch and kill” hush money scandal while he was Executive Editor of the National Enquirer and Radar Online. (In the course of that work he was threatened with two multimillion dollar lawsuits). His proudest moment is appearing in a towel in People magazine after a photo editor at the New York Post accidentally released unpublished pictures of him and a colleague inside the Standard hotel while covering a story about guests having sex in the windows. He also once had to eat cheese made from breast milk.
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