177: Mike Mooney's sex-trafficking podcast

Mike used to work at D Magazine . Now he doesn't. But he's got a new podcast that dropped April 11 on Audible. It is titled Hold Fast . Over nine episodes, Mike and two other journalists ( Sam Eifling and Trevor Aaronson ) chronicle the rise and fall of Backpage.com, the Dallas-born classified ad site that a federal prosecutor called "the world's largest sex trafficking operation." Mike spent three days interviewing Mike Lacey, the founder of the New Times chain of alt weeklies and the man the feds say ran a criminal operation with Backpage.com. In addition to all that, we talked about why Mike escaped Oak Cliff for the suburbs. Consider subscribing to D Magazine . Print makes the podcast work.

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177: Mike Mooney's sex-trafficking podcast is an episode from D Magazine's EarBurner by Jason Heid.

This episode is 52:50 long.

This episode was published on Apr 10, 2024.

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