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1. Behind the News

   CJR Rewind: The Lee Abrams Experience

   October 18, 2010 08:30 AM

   On Friday, October 15, Tribune Company chief innovation officer Lee Abrams resigned after being suspended for forwarding an inappropriate e-mail to the entire company. In 2008, Robert Love profiled the controversial Abrams for CJR. The article is reprinted below. Abrams... Continue reading

2. Feature

   The Lee Abrams Experience

   September 9, 2008 09:00 AM

   Abrams Unbound In a modest, cluttered office on the sixth floor of Chicago’s Tribune Tower, the future of American newspapers looks to its past. It is here that Lee Abrams, a former radio consultant and the new “chief innovation... Continue reading

3. Feature

   Before Jon Stewart

   March 1, 2007 08:30 AM

   Just before his famous confrontation with Tucker Carlson on CNN ’s Crossfire two years ago, Jon Stewart was introduced as “the most trusted name in fake news.” No argument there. Stewart, as everyone knows, is the host of The... Continue reading

4. Essay

   Fear of Yoga

   November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

   Yoga is the Survivor of the culture wars: unbloodied, unmuddied, unbothered by the media’s slings and arrows, its leotard still as pristine as its reputation. Everybody loves yoga; sixteen and a half million Americans practice it regularly, and twenty-five... Continue reading