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New Orleans and the future of news

Media policy matters, and journalists ought to weigh in

Last week’s announcement that the New Orleans Times-Picayune would be slashing its staff and cutting its print run to just... More

Tornadoes in America

A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma

Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real

I have no hope for the future

One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue

What hard news misses

50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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