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1. November 20, 2012 12:15 PM

   Highway to the danger zone

   Following Sandy, HuffPo and NYT dig into the folly of coastal development

   By Curtis Brainard

   Hurricane Sandy renewed the media’s interest in the many foolish ways that we increase our vulnerability to extreme weather. There’s climate change, of course. That came up right away. But carbon pollution isn’t the only, or even the most immediate, thing that we’re doing to imperil ourselves. There’s also relentless, right-up-to-the-water’s-edge-in-a-floodplain coastal development. After focusing on global warming in the...

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2. 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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3. November 30, 2012 03:29 PM

   NY community papers struggle post-Sandy

   Small papers were washed away when their readers most needed them, and they're still recovering

   By Henry Gass

   The Wave offices, post-Hurricane Sandy. Photo credit: Henry Gass During Hurricane Sandy, the offices of The Wave, a community newspaper in the Rockaways, Queens, got hit by a five-foot tidal surge. Now the paper’s general manager, Sanford Bernstein, is figuring out how to publish his weekly newspaper with half the equipment, a bare-bones staff, and almost no advertising to speak...

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4. November 13, 2012 06:50 AM

   Of storms and ships at sea

   Let’s not take them personally

   By Merrill Perlman

   We have names. Our pets have names. And so do hurricanes and ships. But, unlike us and our pets, hurricanes and ships do not have sex. Or gender. So, please, shouldn’t we stop calling them “him” or “her”? It personalizes them to a ludicrous extent. Hurricane Sandy, which recently devastated parts of the Northeast, is a case in point. News...

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5. November 13, 2012 11:00 AM

   Stories I’d like to see

   The clown-show economics of storm-hit utilities, and in search of open primaries

   By Steven Brill

   In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. My Alaska-Hawaii electricity repair team: It’s 10 o’clock and the lights are out. Do you know where your local utility actually lives? I have already written that...

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