Ryan Lizza Publishes Substack Series After Media Fight

Ryan Lizza published an eight-part, 25,000-word Substack series and discussed it on Semafor’s podcast "Mixed Signals," saying he wrote it to respond to Olivia Nuzzi’s book and a Vanity Fair excerpt and calling Nuzzi’s account “a work of fiction.”He says attempts to correct the record — warnings to Jacob Bernstein at The New York Times, pitches to Politico including John Harris, and submissions to Avid Reader Press and Simon & Schuster — were ignored or undermined by legal episodes, including a Washington domestic-violence court action and an attempted nondisclosure agreement that he says “shut down my reporting before the election,” prompting him to leave Politico in April and move to Substack.His account of journalistic failures around Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the personal toll of going public arrives amid broader reckonings over past scandals after Monica Lewinsky reflected in midtown Manhattan on surviving the 1998 affair with Bill Clinton and reclaiming her life through pieces like "Shame and Survival", the TED talk "The Price of Shame" and the podcast "Reclaiming".