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1. May 25, 2012 11:09 AM

   David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on the Times-Picayune cuts

   By David Simon

   It's grievous what is happening to regional newspapers, especially. But the whole industry will continue to collapse until everyone swallows hard and goes behind a paywall. The New York Times has shown us the end of the beginning; they've embraced the paywall and they are seeing significant revenue. The Washington Post, LA Times, others have to follow. Once the content...

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2. June 5, 2012 11:36 AM

   How David Simon is wrong about paywalls

   Let me count the ways. Ten, in fact.

   By Howard Owens

   David Simon is a talented writer and storyteller, but is he qualified to give advice to publishers about how to save their dying industry? As qualified as anybody else, I suppose. But when he suggested in a recent piece for CJR that people like me who disagree with his position on paid content were unqualified, that got under my skin...

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3. November 16, 2012 04:00 PM

   Must-reads of the week

   David Petraeus, Mormon reporters, Guy Fieri, stray penises

   By The Editors

   Culled from CJR's frequently updated "Must-reads from around the Web," our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can't-miss must-reads of the past week: How I was drawn into the cult of David Petraeus — One journalist on the role he played in the mythmaking surrounding Petraeus After Sandy —...

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4. June 12, 2012 10:32 AM

   Owens’s straw man army

   A commentator takes 10 swings at paywalls, and misses each time

   By Ryan Chittum

   Howard Owens's 5,200 word CJR riposte to David Simon on paywalls deserve a reply of its own (outside of its comments section, which at 126 and counting, you should take some time to read). Owens’s ideas are something of an artifact—conventional wisdom from a few years ago that time and new information have disproved. Let’s be clear: When it comes...

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5. September 19, 2012 03:38 PM

   ProPublica reporter gets the Treme treatment

   The show's third season will feature a character based on A.C. Thompson

   By Sara Morrison

   A.C. Thompson's reporting on transgressions by the New Orleans police force in the wake of Hurricane Katrina led to an article in The Nation, a reporter position at ProPublica, three convictions (one since overturned) for the police officers involved in the murder of a man named Henry Glover, and, starting September 23, a character on HBO's Treme. Treme, written by...

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