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Must-reads of the week

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January 3, 2014

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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 Netflix reverse engineered Hollywood — Alexis Madrigal built his own genre generator

Ezra Klein rumored to be leaving WaPo — “Though the atmosphere within The Post was described as civilized, one person said, there has been some awkwardness”

Surviving anxiety — The Atlantic‘s editor on how he came to terms with the nation’s most common mental illness

Sign of the Times — Nicholas Kristof drops the middle initial from his byline

You won’t believe what viral content does to news — The fastest-growing forms of online ‘content’ are click-bait headlines and videos

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