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Fact-checking at The New Yorker

An excerpt from The Art of Making Magazines

By Peter Canby Oct 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Last month, Columbia Journalism Review Books and Columbia University Press released The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor... More

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