Author Archive
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Feature
China’s Chess Match
November 16, 2010 06:00 AMEarly in 2003, like millions of other migrants of his generation, Sun Zhigang, a young graphic designer, left central China, where he had attended university, and headed for the country’s booming industrial Southeast. His quest: work, and with luck,... Continue reading
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Review
Black Editor, Gray Lady
May 6, 2010 08:00 AMMy Times in Black and White: Race and Power at The New York Times | By Gerald M. Boyd | Lawrence Hill Books | 402 pages, $26.95 The entire arc of Gerald Boyd’s remarkable life is contained in the... Continue reading
Desks
The Audit Business
- Audit Notes: Facebook IPO edition
- The Chicago Tribune lights up the flame-retardant industry An outstanding investigation show how chemical companies preserve a toxic cash cow
The Observatory Science
- The western frontier KQED Quest, Pacific Standard keep their eyes on the other coast
- USA Today’s oily, gassy rainbow Detailed cover story a bit too rosy about ‘energy independence’
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- The over-covered image war Journalists are exaggerating the risk that Mitt Romney will be “defined” early
- Medicare and the $500 billion bogeyman Will a half-truth still work for the GOP?
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The Kicker last updated: Mon 3:17 PM
- The Pulitzer Prize luncheon, storified
- A game of telephone fools the Times
- What Warren Buffett sees in local newspapers
- Don’t take my traditional Internet away!
- Why China ejected Melissa Chan
The Future of Media
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- Missouri Scout Subscription-based niche political news from a stockbroker turned political junkie
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