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May 16, 2011 Media / Publicity

‘Tabloid City’ vs. ‘The Solomon Scandals’: A quick, friendly comparison between Pete Hamill’s newspaper novel and mine

Pete Hamill is out with Tabloid City, a New York newspaper novel commanding its share of pixels, column inches and

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September 16, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

A not-so-loving look at the Washington Post’s Marcus Brauchli from the Columbia Journalism Review—and my own take from afar

In The Solomon Scandals, George McWilliams runs a word-mill at the fictitious Washington Telegram—using his Rolex to time reporters writing

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August 16, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Media pieties debunked: Even NYT and WaPo pick up SOME rumors—and I’m glad they do

Here’s a question that the debut of TBD.com, the new hyperlocal site written up in Howard Kurtz’s media column today,

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December 20, 2008 Uncategorized

Deep Throat is dead—and so are the old rules of investigative journalism

Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, the whistleblower in the FBI who blew open much of the Watergate scandal for the

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