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:
36 hours on the fake campaign trail with Donald Trump —
Letting go of Asperger’s — Months after Hanna Rosin’s son was diagnosed, the label officially disappeared. And that turned out to be a good thing
Will John Henry save the Globe? — “I feel my mortality,” he says. So here’s his plan: He’s going to use the time he has left on earth to try to save journalism itself
This old man — Roger Angell at 93
Meet the mayor of the center of the world — “[Istel] thought it would be fun to get his little village officially recognized as the center of the world…. The first step seemed obvious: He needed to write a children’s book”
Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese — A deeply erroneous New York Times report and a media that fell so deeply in love with a story that it couldn’t be bothered to determine whether it was true
Why Netflix is winning — Its shows aren’t as good as HBO’s, but there’s more to business than quality
The Editors are the staffers of the Columbia Journalism Review.