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Cover Story
Six degrees of aggregation
April 16, 2012 05:15 PMOf the many and conflicting stories about how The Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three international editions (with more to come), 1.2 billion monthly page views and 54 million comments... Continue reading
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The Newspaper That Almost Seized the Future
November 10, 2011 06:00 AM1. ‘It Was Written’ Randall Keith and I are talking about the past when his boss, Dave Butler, slides open a glass door, eases his long frame into a chair, plants his feet on the conference room table, and... Continue reading
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The Paper Chase
May 6, 2011 09:00 AMYears later, when he recounted the events that would lead to his becoming the most sensational, shameless, ambitious, and tortured newspaper editor of his time, Emile Gauvreau would return to the day in 1924 when, without a... Continue reading
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The Reporter Whom Time Forgot
May 13, 2010 08:00 AMIn 1957, an expatriate Irish newspaperman struggling to make a buck after his most recent employer went under began making the rounds of magazine editors and book publishers, hoping to get someone to help foot the bill for a... Continue reading
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Of Heroes and Humans
September 22, 2009 08:00 AMRed Smith, who wrote as well as anyone about athletes and the games they play, called the sports section the “toy department,” and it is hard to know whether he meant this as a statement of defiance or of... Continue reading
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Open for Business
July 22, 2009 08:00 AMIn the dark winter and spring of 2009, as dispatches from the news business grew ever more grim, as Jim Romenesko’s posts took on the feel of casualty reports, newsrooms across the land began to feel like the Emerald City... Continue reading
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- Audit Notes: pyramid people, Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall Roddy Boyd digs into a diet-shake pyramid scheme
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- Dull news from Doha UN climate summit a ho-hum affair for the press
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