DAVID GAUVEY HERBERT

I write feature stories for The New York Times Magazine, New York, Esquire, and others.

I’m also a two-time grant winner from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. My story about America’s longest-running weight-loss camp for kids won a 2022 Deadline Club Award.

I previously lived in Beijing, but 我的汉语有一点儿生疏了。Mon français is even worse.

I am now back in Brooklyn, where I grew up.

DOCUMENTARY

+ REN FAIRE - HBO - June 2024 - Co-creator and Executive Producer

+ FRANK - SXSW 2024 - Director

LONG STUFF

+ Bad Dojo - Esquire - April 2025

+ Cheer Inc. - The New York Times Magazine - October 2024

+ The Case of the Fake Sherlock - New York Magazine - April 2023

+ The Follower - Esquire - June 2022

+ The Epic Family Feud Behind an Iconic American Weight-Loss Camp for Kids - Bloomberg Businessweek - Aug 2021

+ Inside Youth Baseball's Most Notorious Dad-On-Dad Rivalry - Esquire - May 2021

+ The Horse Meat Vigilante - Bloomberg Businessweek - March 2021

+ The Ballad of Ron and Dorinda - Esquire - Dec 2020

+ Boss of the Beach - New York Magazine - June 2020

+ The King of Germany Will Accept Your Bank Deposits Now - Bloomberg Businessweek - May 2020

+ Jackpot: How two lottery-crazed bank clerks cooked up China’s biggest bank robbery of all time - Medium - December 2019

+ On the Trail of New York’s Nutcracker Kings - Grub Street - June 2019

+ The Two Million Dollar Intern - Amazon Kindle Single - May 2019

+ The School Photo Industry is a Master Class in Drama - New York Times - May 2019

+ The Caviar Con - Longreads - Feb 2019

+ The Five Families of Feces - New York Magazine - Feb 2019

+ The Art of Crowdfunding War - Bloomberg Businessweek - Jan 2019

+ The Ministry of Miraculous Recoveries - Roads & Kingdoms - Nov 2018

+ Billions of dollars later, Joseph Kony remains at large and the first world has lost interest in bringing him to justice - Quartz - April 2017

+ Notorious B.I.G. & 9/11: Radio Censorship, Illuminati Conspiracy Theories and Everything In Between - Billboard - April 2017

+ Kony 2017: Guerrilla Marketing to Guerrilla Warfare - Foreign Policy - March 2017

+ Code Rouge: Cracking the Case of Counterfeit Makeup - Bloomberg Businessweek - Feb 2017

+ Prince of the Forty Thieves - The Atavist - Dec 2016

+ Uganda’s Top Export: Mercenaries - Bloomberg Businessweek - May 2016

+ Rest in Peace for Less With Caskets Made in China - Bloomberg Businessweek - Feb 2015

SHORT STUFF

+ COVID Silver Lining: Porta Potty Boom — The New Yorker - Sept 2020

+ New York’s Booze Deliveries Are Skyrocketing - Grub Street - March 2020

+ An American Mastodon in Paris - The Atlantic - Nov 2017

+ This Company Says Its Software Can Pick Soccer Stars -  Bloomberg Businessweek - Oct 2017