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1. Fiftieth Anniversary

   Tin Soldier

   January 27, 2012 02:39 PM

   In April 2004, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier named Jonathan Keith Idema started shopping a sizzling story to the media. He claimed terrorists in Afghanistan planned to use bomb-laden taxi cabs to kill key U.S. and Afghan officials, and... Continue reading

2. Short Takes

   Cloudy Skies

   January 28, 2009 10:36 AM

   In many ways, CleanSkies.tv, an online outfit offering “energy and environmental news, information, discussion, and commentary,” resembles other TV news operations. It has offices in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Oklahoma City, a multimillion-dollar budget, and twenty-five journalists on staff, some... Continue reading

3. Short Takes

   Second Life

   July 1, 2008 09:00 AM

   Even in this era of editorial reinvention, few media outlets have remade themselves as completely as the legendary German-language newspaper Aufbau. Founded in 1934, the publication’s mission was to help Jewish refugees and their children shed their European... Continue reading

4. The Water Cooler

   Making it in (and out of) Myanmar

   May 16, 2008 11:06 AM

   Aid workers aren’t the only ones having trouble getting into Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis. The nation’s secretive military regime is withholding visas from journalists and going to unusual lengths to root out those foreign reporters who manage to slip into... Continue reading

5. Feature

   Private Matters

   October 11, 2007 09:00 AM

   One of the biggest scandals to engulf the British press since princess Diana’s death began with a trivial bit of gossip about her eldest son. In late 2005, Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid News of the World ran a story about... Continue reading

6. Behind the News

   The Reporter Who Came In From the Cold

   August 30, 2006 12:11 PM

   Weilheim is a cozy Bavarian village, where geraniums drip from window boxes and onion-domed churches and Alpine chateaus line the cobbled streets. Journalist Erich Schmidt-Eenboom lives in this sleepy town, and he was there sifting through files on a warm... Continue reading

7. The Water Cooler

   Tim Golden on Digging Deep, Timing, and Sourcing

   May 27, 2005 05:46 PM

   Tim Golden is an investigative reporter for the New York Times and a writer for the New York Times Magazine. Prior to joining the Times' staff he worked for the Miami Herald and United Press International. He was a member... Continue reading