The Story of the 2008 Universal Fire

Smoke billows from a large fire on the back lot at Universal Studios of Universal City Studios in Universal City, Calif., north of Los Angeles Sunday June 1, 2008.

Contributing writer for The New York Times, Jody Rosen, discusses his new cover story for The New York Times Magazine, “The Day the Music Burned,” the first full accounting of the 2008 Universal fire which lead to the loss of hundreds of thousands of master recordings.