Lachlan Cartwright

Lachlan Cartwright is the founder of Breaker Media  and a  contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He has reported from Australia, London, and across the US over a 20-year career in journalism.  He has written for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, The Ankler, and The Hollywood Reporter. He was appointed the first online news editor of The Sun at 25 and went on to create and helm the media newsletter Confider.

Cartwright has broken agenda-setting stories about the Murdochs, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, and child sex abuse at the highest levels of the Catholic church. He also covered Michael Jackson’s death, the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and the NYC bike-path terror attack. In 2016, he broke a series of stories that were under restrictive super-injunctions in the UK, which led London law firms to advise clients against the practice. 

In 2024,  he wrote the cover story for The New York Times Magazine  about the role he played in Donald Trump’s “catch and kill” hush-money scandal while he was executive editor of the National Enquirer and RadarOnline. (In the course of that work he was threatened with two multi-million-dollar lawsuits). He has also appeared on television and radio across the world.