William Bastone

{{Short description|American editor}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2012}}

William Bastone is editor and co-founder of The Smoking Gun website. In 1997, Bastone and his wife Barbara Glauber, who is a graphic designer, created The Smoking Gun with freelance journalist Daniel Green.{{cite web|title=Backgrounder: William Bastone|url=http://journalism.nyu.edu/publishing/archives/bullpen/william_bastone/backgrounder/|publisher=BullPen|accessdate=17 March 2013}} In 1984, Bastone worked as an investigative journalist for The Village Voice. He started at The Village Voice as an intern, then worked his way up to being a contributing writer, then ended as a staff writer and investigative journalist. As an investigative journalist, he was responsible for covering City Hall, criminal justice issues, and writing about five of New York's most famous mafia families. TheSmokingGun.com was then bought by Court TV in 2000, enabling Bastone to quit his job with The Village Voice.{{cite web|last=Keefer|first=Bryan|title=William Bastone on James Frey and The Smoking Gun: Columbia Journalism Review|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_water_cooler/william_bastone_on_james_frey.php?page=all|publisher=CJR|accessdate=17 March 2013}} He also co-wrote a book titled The Smoking Gun: A Dossier of Secret, Surprising, and Salacious Documents.{{cite news|url=http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/bullpen/william_bastone/backgrounder/|title=Backgrounder: William Bastone|last=Wiese|first=Cleve|work=Bullpen|publisher=Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute|accessdate=February 1, 2010}}{{cite book|last1=Bleier|first1=Thomas E.|last2=Steinert|first2=Eric C.|title=Net.people: the personalities and passions behind the Web sites|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L0ha1oApTvoC&pg=PA253|accessdate=January 31, 2010|year=2000|publisher=Information Today, Inc.|isbn=978-0-910965-37-8|page=253}}{{cite news|url=http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/an_interview_with_the_smoking_gun.php|title=An Interview With The Smoking Gun|last=Bialik|first=Carl|date=February 17, 2006|work=Gelf Magazine|accessdate=February 1, 2010}}