Author Archive
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Essay
Just Press On
November 14, 2011 05:00 AMNic Roethlisberger and Dhyana Levey now live in the foggy Richmond District of San Francisco, flanked by the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate. The couple spent the mid-2000s in and around Modesto—Nic as a copy editor at The... Continue reading
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Feature
No Profit, No Problem
March 20, 2009 08:00 AMSan Francisco, 2014—With the collapse of the business model undergirding the tradition of muckraking journalism—and the double-digit profit margins it supplied—most newspapers that survived the last five years did so by cutting staff, eliminating coverage areas, and hyping easy-to-report fluff.... Continue reading
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