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Claim your profileAaron Gell is a freelance writer and hardbitten media industry survivor. He has served as an adjunct instructor of journalism in NYU's Prison Education Program, features editor for Task & Purpose, editorial director of Maxim, deputy editor of Business Insider, editor-in-chief of The New York Observer and of Hemispheres magazine, executive editor of Radar, and senior features editor of W. He has been a contributor to numerous publications, including The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, the Baffler, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, New York, GQ, Elle and Dirt: A Supplement to Sassy. Gell is the author of “Friend of the Devil,” Longform.org’s “most clicked” story of 2015, and “Unlucky Charms: The Rise and Fall of Billion-Dollar Jewelry Empire Alex + Ani,” SABEW’s best business feature of 2020 and a Loeb Award finalist. His 2018 story “Did Brian Easley Have to Die?” served as the basis for the feature film Breaking, starring John Boyega and Michael K. Williams.