| 词条 | Jeff Maysh |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Jeff Maysh | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1982|03|30}} | birth_place = Nassau, Bahamas | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | nationality = British-American | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = {{Flatlist|
}} | years_active = | residence = Los Angeles, United States | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | home_town = | television = | religion = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = | module = {{Listen| embed=yes |filename = Jeff Maysh voice.ogg |title = Maysh's voice |type = speech |description = recorded January 2017 }} }} Jeff Maysh (born 30 March 1982, Nassau, Bahamas) is a British-American writer, author and journalist based in Los Angeles, California. Life and CareerJeff Maysh was born to British parents in Nassau, Bahamas, and was educated in London. He started his career as a staff writer on the British men's magazine Loaded.[1] In 2010, he moved to America to cover international crime[2], and became a naturalized American citizen in 2016. He investigates unusual criminals, fraud, and identity theft for publications including The Atlantic.[3] As a correspondent for the BBC, Maysh became the first journalist to enter the notorious Korydallos prison, near Athens.[4][https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29250890 His profile] of prisoner Vassilis Paleokostas, a Greek bank robber who escaped from the prison in a helicopter, twice, was published on the BBC News Magazine on 25 September 2014.[5] His story about Steve Davies, a mythical soccer fan who scored a goal for West Ham United,[6] was listed in the notable section of 'Best American Sports Writing 2014', and voted number one in a poll of 'greatest ever soccer stories'.[7] In May 2015, Paramount Pictures acquired the movie rights to Maysh's story The Wedding Sting. According to a report in Variety,[8] bidding became 'competitive' among Hollywood studios for the true account of a rural Michigan police department that trapped drug dealers with a fake wedding. The story was first published in The Atlantic.[9] His 2016 book Handsome Devil is about Victor Lustig[10], while the following year's The Spy With No Name is about Erwin van Haarlem, a Czechoslovak spy.[11] In 2018, Maysh published an 8,900-word article on a major fraud involving the McDonald’s Monopoly promotion on The Daily Beast.[12] This story of a former police officer who stole $20 million in cash and prizes became the subject of a bidding war in Hollywood.[13] The sale of the movie rights to Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Twentieth Century Fox for $1 Million was reported by The Hollywood Reporter as the highest fee ever paid for a single magazine article.[14] AwardsIn 2017, Maysh won 'Best Crime Reporting,' 'Best Feature (over 1,000 words),' and ‘Foreign Correspondent of the Year’ at the 58th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.[15] The awards recognized his Playboy story about a Michigan farmer who operated a scam involving counterfeit Pez dispensers[16]; and also his profile of Sandeep Kaur, a female bank robber known as ‘the Bombshell Bandit,’ for BBC News Magazine.[17] At the 60th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards in 2018, Maysh won 'Best Crime Reporting'[18] for his Los Angeles Magazine story about a former LAPD detective turned bank robber.[19] He also won ‘Best Soft News Feature’[18] for ‘A Catfishing With a Happy Ending,’ a story about online dating deception for The Atlantic.[20] His profile of a fake cheerleader for The Atlantic[21] was anthologized in Best American Sports Writing 2017.[22][23] Bibliography
References1. ^https://medium.com/the-queue-uk/talking-about-writing-jeff-maysh-author-of-handsome-devil-735b20bb24a0 {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Maysh, Jeff}}2. ^{{cite news|title = Talking About Writing: Jeff Maysh|publisher = The Queue|date = 12 March 2016|url = https://medium.com/the-queue-uk/talking-about-writing-jeff-maysh-author-of-handsome-devil-735b20bb24a0#.6qq4a844|accessdate =1 August 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web |last1=Maysh |first1=Jeff |title=Jeff Maysh |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/jeff-maysh/ |website=The Atlantic |accessdate=12 March 2019}} 4. ^{{cite news|title = Exclusive: Hollywood Calls For Paleokostas?|publisher = Greek Reporter|date = 14 September 2014|url = http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/2014/09/25/exclusive-hollywood-calls-for-paleokostas/ |accessdate =1 August 2016}} 5. ^{{cite news|title = Readers spent 2.3 million minutes on The Uncatchable @BBCNewsMagazine|publisher = Twitter|date = 26 September 2014}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/sep/05/harry-redknapp-played-fan-west-ham|title=The day Harry Redknapp brought a fan on to play for West Ham|date=5 September 2013|work=The Guardian|accessdate=6 March 2017}} 7. ^{{cite news|title = Readers' Poll: These Are Your Five Favorite Ever Soccer Articles|publisher = Longform.org|date = 2 October 2014|url = http://longform.org/posts/readers-poll-these-are-your-five-favorite-soccer-articles|accessdate =1 August 2016}} 8. ^{{cite news|title = Paramount lands Atlantic Article on Flint Wedding Sting|work = Variety|date = 12 May 2015|url = https://variety.com/2015/film/news/paramount-atlantic-article-the-wedding-sting-1201493421/|accessdate =1 August 2016}} 9. ^https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/the-wedding-sting/392699/ 10. ^{{cite news |title=The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-sold-eiffel-tower-twice-180958370/ |accessdate=12 March 2019 |work=Smithsonian |language=en}} 11. ^{{cite news |title=The spy with no name |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38261956 |accessdate=12 March 2019 |date=4 January 2017}} 12. ^{{cite news |last1=Maysh |first1=Jeff |title=How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions |accessdate=12 March 2019 |date=29 July 2018 |language=en}} 13. ^{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Chris |title=Behind Hollywood’s A-List Bidding War for a McDonald’s Monopoly Article |url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/behind-hollywoods-mcdonalds-monopoly-article-bidding-war.html |accessdate=12 March 2019 |work=www.vulture.com}} 14. ^{{cite news |last1=Abramovitch |first1=Seth |title=Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Paid $1 Million for McDonald's Monopoly Scam Story |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ben-affleck-matt-damon-paid-1-million-mcdonalds-monopoly-scam-story-1132107 |accessdate=12 March 2019 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en}} 15. ^{{cite web |title=Winners of the 58th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards |url=http://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016-Southern-California-Journalism-Award-Winners.pdf |publisher=LA Press Club |accessdate=12 March 2019}} 16. ^{{cite news |title=Playboy Magazine Author Jeff Maysh on the smuggling of Pez dispensers |url=https://wgnradio.com/2015/03/21/playboy-magazine-author-jeff-maysh-on-pez-dispenser-smuggling/ |accessdate=12 March 2019 |work=WGN Radio - 720 AM |date=21 March 2015 |language=en}} 17. ^{{cite news |title=The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481834 |accessdate=12 March 2019 |date=28 April 2015}} 18. ^1 {{cite web |title=Winners Southern California Journalism Awards Contest |url=http://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Winners-SoCal-2018-REVISED-08222018.pdf |publisher=LA Press Club |accessdate=12 March 2019}} 19. ^{{cite web |last1=Maysh |first1=Jeff |title=The Cop Who Became a Robber Los Angeles Magazine |url=https://www.lamag.com/longform/snowbird-bandit-randy-adair/ |website=Los Angeles Magazine |accessdate=12 March 2019 |date=22 August 2017}} 20. ^{{cite web |last1=Maysh |first1=Jeff |title=A Catfishing With a Happy Ending |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/hook-line-and-sinker/542748/ |website=The Atlantic |accessdate=12 March 2019 |date=19 October 2017}} 21. ^{{cite web |last1=Maysh |first1=Jeff |title=Why One Woman Pretended to Be a High-School Cheerleader |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/07/wendy-brown/486152/ |website=The Atlantic |accessdate=12 March 2019 |date=6 July 2016}} 22. ^{{cite web |last1=Doane |first1=Randal |title=‘The Best American Sports Writing 2017’: The Power of the Pen in a Year of Unquiet Americans |url=https://www.popmatters.com/best-american-sports-writing-2017-review-2516019572.html |website=PopMatters |accessdate=12 March 2019 |language=en |date=20 December 2017}} 23. ^{{cite book |title=The best American sports writing. 2017 |date=2017 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |location=Boston |isbn=9780544821552 |pages=335-344}} 6 : Living people|1982 births|English male journalists|British expatriates in the United States|People from Nassau, Bahamas|People from Hollywood, Los Angeles |
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