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  1. May 2, 2012 06:00 AM

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    The Instagram campaign

    By The Editors

    Every presidential campaign produces its share of iconic images, but never before have we been able to see trail life in so many shades, vintages, and fetishistic detail. For that, thank Instagram, the free photography app—just snatched up by Facebook for $1 billion. It empowers anyone with a smartphone to snap Polaroid-size photos and make them pretty, instantly,...

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  2. March 1, 2012 03:27 PM

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    Pinterest is the media's newest BFF

    By The Editors

    “What is Pinterest and why should I care?” asked a recent blog post on
    TheAtlantic.com. In case you’ve managed to elude the digital onslaught on this topic, you can see from the screenshot above that it’s a kind of scrapbooking social network, allowing users to grab images they like and “pin” them to their personal...

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  3. January 6, 2012 06:00 AM

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    Show us how the game is rigged

    By The Editors

    On November 26, 2011, The New York Times published an investigation of Ronald Lauder’s aggressive use of strategies available to the superrich to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. It was the kind of story that makes people angry, and something the nation needs more of from its press. As the presidential race...

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  4. November 28, 2011 06:00 AM

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    Here's to another fifty

    By The Editors

    C JR’s debut was mostly greeted with “bouquets,” though a few readers, our second issue noted, “reacted with unblemished hostility.” You can’t please everyone, especially in this job. Still, we are alive. Pop a cork and consider the times—some too recent to admit—we flirted with death. Toast our many reanimators, who emerged when cjr needed them. And...

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  5. August 28, 2011 11:54 AM

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    Fostering an awareness of our commonalities, ten years after September 11th

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    Four planes. One-hundred-and-two minutes of the towers smoking. Almost three thousand dead. Then, suddenly, it is ten years later, and we are still coming to terms with the events of September 11, 2001, while our country is more divided than it has been for years. Bin Laden is dead, but the...

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  6. July 5, 2011 11:32 AM

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    Jill Abramson, the first woman at the helm of The New York Times

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    “OMG. It’s official, women run the world,” wrote Dennis M. Madison, a New York Times reader who posted a comment on the newspaper’s June 2 web story announcing that Jill Abramson would be its next executive editor, the first woman at its helm. His giddy hyperbole feels right. Despite intense financial pressure, the Times remains...

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  7. May 1, 2011 02:13 PM

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    Attacks on reporters and photographers in the Arab world threaten journalism everywhere

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    Is journalism worth dying for? Murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s editor used those words as the title of a posthumously published collection of Politkovskaya’s articles. The question was meant to refer to the danger faced by reporters in repressive regimes like Russia. But it has taken on new relevance for journalists covering the series of revolutions...

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  8. February 23, 2011 04:05 PM

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    Al Jazeera showed global media how to cover an uprising

    By The Editors

    >Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite news network, showed global media how to cover a people’s uprising—by getting right into the thick of things and keeping the cameras running, both witnessing and propelling events. Perched on a telephone booth in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on January 31, the TV in the photo above was one of many positioned so that the...

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  9. January 8, 2011 06:22 PM

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    Notes on 2010, the year of WikiLeaks

    By The Editors

    It began in April with the release of a video showing Apache helicopter pilots killing civilians, including two Reuters employees, after apparently mistaking cameras for weapons, and ended in December with five of the world’s most respected print outlets publishing valuable reporting based on a trove of 260,000 U.S. diplomatic cables. This Year of WikiLeaks roiled the news equation...

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