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  • Tribune bankruptcy: Chronicle of a news media death foretold?

    Get ready for another round of despair about the future of newspapers. The show will, however, go on.
    By Andrew Leonard December 8, 2008

  • Reinventing sports on the Web

    The Sporting News is trying to revive with an innovative method of bringing print design values online.
    By King Kaufman August 6, 2008

  • I need more ideas! Where do they come from?

    I've been doing well selling my writing but I seem to be running out of inspiration.
    By Cary Tennis June 2, 2008

  • Who killed the literary critic?

    In the age of blogging, great critics appear to be on life support. Salon's book reviewers discuss snobbery, how to make criticism fun and the need for cultural gatekeepers.
    By Louis Bayard and Laura Miller May 22, 2008

  • Journalism and its discontents

    Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero.
    By Sidney Blumenthal October 25, 2007

  • I'm working for a cokehead at a free arts magazine

    She promised a raise and didn't deliver, and acts like I should be grateful!
    By Cary Tennis September 27, 2007

  • Don't sell my company to Rupert Murdoch

    It's not just bad journalism, it's bad business to let Murdoch take control of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.
    By Steven Yount July 22, 2007

  • Molly lives

    Like Mark Twain, Molly Ivins treated us to the sound of America in her prose and style. She was the rare, gifted journalist whose work transcended the news that inspired it.
    By Joe Conason February 2, 2007

  • The New York Times pets the furry heads of bloggers everywhere

    Who knew? Page views count. Doom of journalism: Part 37.
    By Andrew Leonard January 16, 2007

  • A portrait of the blogger as a young plagiarist

    As a college student Ben Domenech lifted arts criticism; as a GOP henchman, he was accused of fabricating a Tim Russert quote. What was the Washington Post thinking?
    By Joe Conason March 24, 2006

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    It's easy to dislike Mitch Albom and easy to jump on him for his ethical sin. But who among us has never cut a corner?
    April 12, 2005

  • The power of a publisher

    Some consider the Cleveland Plain Dealer's decision to endorse no one for president a victory -- the paper almost gave the nod to Bush.
    By Lisa Chamberlain October 27, 2004

  • War? What war?

    Until the recent flare-up in Najaf, Iraq had faded from the front pages -- despite continued carnage and chaos. Team Bush couldn't be happier.
    By Eric Boehlert August 12, 2004

  • Reality check

    The media are finally showing the war in its full horror. What took them so long?
    By Eric Boehlert May 6, 2004

  • Orange agents

    During a week of war fever, the news media gave rein to hysteria -- and, critics say, let color-coded terror alerts serve the White House agenda.
    By Eric Boehlert February 15, 2003

  • Troubled Times

    Missteps by Howell Raines, the New York Times' imperious top editor, have left the nation's best newspaper vulnerable to attacks by the right.
    By Eric Boehlert December 18, 2002

  • Gerson Borrero, freestyle ranter

    Politicians, get in line -- the fire-breathing editor of New York's oldest Spanish language newspaper will happily tear you a new one.
    By Rachel Scheier October 31, 2001

  • The amazing disappearing book review section

    Enthralled by marketing surveys, the newspaper industry's managerial caste has decreed that readers want more space devoted to the Backstreet Boys than to books.
    By Kevin Berger July 19, 2001

  • "Double Fold" by Nicholson Baker

    A crusading novelist indicts America's libraries for destroying precious archives of newspapers and books -- and puts his own savings on the line to rescue them.
    By Stephanie Zacharek April 27, 2001

  • The San Francisco Examiner, 1887-2000

    Underfunded and outmanned, the scrappy afternoon paper could sometimes prevail over the competition -- but couldn't survive its own mismanagement.
    By Scott Rosenberg March 21, 2000
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