How Brian Stelter Turned Reliable Sources Into the Smartest Sunday Show

By: Evan McMurry | Mediaite

"The guest,” Brian Stelter told Mediaite, “is everything.

Stelter was leaning against the wall of a West Village brewpub, having just finished booking Slate’s Hanna Rosin to talk Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story on his Sunday morning show. It was a good get; the next day Rolling Stone would retract its bombshell article, and Rosin would write one of the most exacting takes on how the magazine failed so spectacularly.