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January 21, 2010 12:03 PMInto the Story: A Writer’s Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss | By David Maraniss | Simon & Schuster | 283 pages, $26 The collected works of journalists often fall flat in book form. The recycled pieces from... Continue reading
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Core Competencies
August 27, 2009 01:54 PMLosing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy | By Alex S. Jones | Oxford University Press | 256 pages, $24.95 Having passed my fortieth year as a professional journalist, with an emphasis on investigative reporting, perhaps... Continue reading
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Anatomy of a Murder
April 1, 2009 07:30 AMColumbine By Dave Cullen | Twelve | 403 pages, $26.99 Ten years ago, two Colorado high school students nudged the name Columbine into general circulation as they massacred students, staff, and faculty, then shot themselves. Naturally, a horde of journalists... Continue reading
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Review
The Accidental Icon
October 9, 2008 09:00 AMThe Other Half: The Life Of Jacob Riis and the World Of Immigrant America By Tom Buk-Swienty Translated from the Danish by Annette Buk-Swienty W. W. Norton 448 pages, $27.95 When contemporary journalists honor their professional ancestors, the accolades are frequently based... Continue reading
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The Audit Business
The Observatory Science
- The western frontier KQED Quest, Pacific Standard keep their eyes on the other coast
- USA Today’s oily, gassy rainbow Detailed cover story a bit too rosy about ‘energy independence’
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- What’s the swingiest state of them all? By any measure, Colorado is at the center of the action in 2012
- The over-covered image war Journalists are exaggerating the risk that Mitt Romney will be “defined” early
Behind the News The Media
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The Kicker last updated: Mon 3:17 PM
- The Pulitzer Prize luncheon, storified
- A game of telephone fools the Times
- What Warren Buffett sees in local newspapers
- Don’t take my traditional Internet away!
- Why China ejected Melissa Chan
The Future of Media
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