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1. January 24, 2011 12:01 PM

   New York’s Obama WH Profile Juicy and Lite

   Heilemann on the Obama redux

   By Joel Meares

   John Heilemann has the cover of New York this week—out today with a picture of the president on the front, phone pressed against his left ear, hands in pockets, eyes downcast to the cover line, “The Remaking of the President.” Inside, the article comes under something a little jazzier: “The West Wing, Season II.” Obama’s poll numbers are up, his...

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2. May 17, 2011 01:32 PM

   Tabloid City and the Contours of Emptiness

   Pete Hamill’s new novel explores a city in decline

   By Jennifer Miller

   Tabloid City | by Pete Hamill | Little, Brown and Company | 288 pages, $26.99 In the opening pages of Pete Hamill’s new novel, Tabloid City, the editor-in-chief of a dying tabloid called the New York World looks around his dead-of-night newsroom and thinks, “We live in the capital of emptiness.” This is true not just of Hamill’s fictional World—presented...

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3. May 24, 2011 03:12 PM

   Does Roger Ailes Think Sarah Palin Is an Idiot?

   By Joel Meares

   A bit of Palin overload today at CJR, but the former governor of Alaska has popped up in another mini media scandal following the publication of Monday’s New York cover story about Roger Ailes, the GOP field, and their interconnectedness through Fox News’s “presidential circus caravan.” New York reporter Gabriel Sherman wrote the story, and truly nobody does this...

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4. November 30, 2012 03:00 PM

   Must-reads of the week

   A day without violence in New York, an immortal jellyfish in Shirahama, the last bookstore in Nashville

   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: Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women — Saudi women's male guardians now receive text messages informing them when women under their custody leave the...

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5. December 1, 2010 10:03 AM

   Need Some Help Climbing Out of That Mess?

   NY Mag’s Chris Smith’s witty e-mail misfire

   By Lauren Kirchner

   On March 1, New York Magazine reporter Chris Smith accidentally sent an e-mail to Paterson press secretary Marissa Shorenstein with the subject line “stair repair.” Parts of the message are redacted, but it looks like someone had asked Smith for his recommendation on a good stair repairman, and he responded with some suggestions. Shorenstein, getting the message in error, wrote...

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6. August 10, 2011 02:22 PM

   Searching for D.B. Cooper

   Geoffrey Gray joins the hunt for the vanishing bandit

   By Jordan Michael Smith

   Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper| By Geoffrey Gray | Crown | 302 pages, $25.00 In the winter of 1971, a man calling himself Dan (misreported as D.B.) Cooper used a bomb to hijack a 727 boarding from Portland, Oregon, and extort $200,000 from Northwest Orient Airlines—he forced a pit-stop so the cash could be delivered-- before jumping out of...

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7. December 1, 2011 03:36 PM

   The Landman Cometh

   Innovation Trail and other New York outlets help readers prepare for fracking prospectors

   By Alysia Santo

   Knock, knock. Who’s there? It’s the “landman,” offering quick cash to extract natural gas on your property using a technique called hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking.” Please take a look at this colorful brochure. It’s a scene that has played out above gas-rich shale formations across the United States. Long before the environmental and public health risks of fracking...

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