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1. Cover Story

   Six degrees of aggregation

   April 16, 2012 05:15 PM

   Of 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

2. Feature

   The Newspaper That Almost Seized the Future

   November 10, 2011 06:00 AM

   1. ‘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

3. Second Read

   The Paper Chase

   May 6, 2011 09:00 AM

   Years 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

4. Second Read

   The Reporter Whom Time Forgot

   May 13, 2010 08:00 AM

   In 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

5. Second Read

   Of Heroes and Humans

   September 22, 2009 08:00 AM

   Red 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

6. Feature

   Open for Business

   July 22, 2009 08:00 AM

   In 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