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  1. December 31, 2011 09:53 PM

    Movement Man

    Meet Chris Faraone, Occupy reporter for the Boston Phoenix

    By Justin Peters

    The week before Occupy Boston changed Chris Faraone's life, grassroots revolution was already on his mind. Faraone, who covers rap music and social injustice for the Boston Phoenix, had filed a 2000-word story about a progressive group called MassUniting, which had organized a series of flamboyant protests against Bank of America; Faraone called the group's efforts "a multilateral...

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  2. November 22, 2010 10:57 AM

    The Biggest Fish in Albany?

    Liz Benjamin's multimedia rise

    By Joel Meares

    On one of her first days at Capital Tonight, the nightly political program she began hosting this year on New York cable channel Your News Now, Liz Benjamin let her presence be known—with volume. It was about 8 a.m. and Benjamin was in the Capital Tonight office, a collection of four desks in an open nook...

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  3. October 29, 2010 06:00 AM

    Keeping Up With Chuck Todd

    "I’m in a business where I’m not allowed to miss right now"

    By Joel Meares

    It’s 6:50 a.m. on a drizzling New York morning and Chuck Todd is standing behind a wall on the cluttered Today Show set, safely out of shot as he waits to talk America’s early risers through the upcoming day in politics. He is sipping from a paper coffee cup as a makeup artist brushes down his charcoal suit—“I...

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  4. October 27, 2009 01:31 PM

    Man About Town

    Meet Kery Murakami, founder of the Seattle PostGlobe

    By Justin Peters

    Kery Murakami, reluctant news entrepreneur, is the founder of the Seattle PostGlobe, a nonprofit Web startup that provides reported news for the Seattle area. He is also the site’s primary reporter, editor, art director, accountant, copy chief, IT troubleshooter, and press agent. “Six months ago I never thought I’d be here,” he says, somewhat wearily. “But this could...

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  5. July 9, 2009 01:47 PM

    Burger Meister

    Meet Kevin Pang, cheeseburger critic for the Chicago Tribune

    By Justin Peters

    Kevin Pang reviews cheeseburgers for the Chicago Tribune—in print, online, and as the creator and host of a video program called, aptly, The Cheeseburger Show. In the process of pursuing his beat, he has become adept at assessing patty construction, meat density, grind caliber, and the many other variables that can make or break a cheeseburger. “It’s gotten...

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  6. May 21, 2009 03:57 PM

    Life and Death

    Profiling Krishna Andavolu, managing editor of Obit

    By Justin Peters

    Krishna Andavolu is the managing editor of Obit (www.obit-mag.com), an online magazine intended for those interested in obituaries, epitaphs, elegies, postludes, retrospectives, grave rubbings, widow’s weeds, and other such memorabilia of expiration. Part eulogistic clearinghouse, part cultural review, Obit purports to examine life through the prism of death. Founded in 2007 by a wealthy New Jersey architect who...

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  7. March 13, 2009 10:07 AM

    Carl Malamud, Public Printer

    An open source Presidential appointment campaign

    By Clint Hendler

    It was 1991, in the early days of the Internet. Carl Malamud was thirty-two years old, and deeply embedded in a community of computer engineers and visionaries shaping the world’s nascent online architecture as it was being built atop phone lines and in parallel with other global networks.

    Many of the technical standards governing those telecommunication systems were laid...

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