I saw a small report about this alleged con-artist in the art world last fall and didn't pursue the story because I was just unsure of how to even start. British GQ just published a great story about the guy. It really draws you in, and it would have received much more attention if we weren't living in this strange covid-19 time where virtually everything in the papers and online is about covid-19 or is covid-19 adjacent.
But even when reporters tackle the same story, they leave to write different pieces. Just look at how Bloomberg, GQ, The Economist, and Wired took on the story of the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship that was stranded in the waters just outside Tokyo in February after they reported a Covid-19 case on the ship, and the cruise ship industry more generally.
Doug Bock Clark at GQ told the story of the ship through the eyes of different people stranded on it. First came a pair of first-world vacationers, then came a cruise ship worker from the third-world, next a vacationer from Hong Kong, then the ship captain, and on. It really draws you into the drama and shows the entire industry from different perspectives. Only at the end does the story pull back to reveal what this means for a changed world.
At Wired, Lauren Smiley took the same approach, but in miniature and included more people. It seemed like more reporting might have gone into it, but she zoomed out much more often.
The Economist took the same approach as well, telling the story from different, passenger perspectives (but neglected the captain and the cruise staff). The piece has the classic structure of a feature story with a lede and a nut graph (actually a slew of paragraphs). Meanwhile, Bloomberg's feature focused on the cruise ship business.