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December 3, 2009 Media / Washington area life

‘Caste and class at the Washington Post’

More than a little hatred of the Internet lingers among certain elite journalists, and not just over copyright issues or

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November 3, 2009 Media

Fisticuff in the Washington Post’s newsroom: And here you thought ‘Scandals’ was only a NOVEL?

Henry Allen, a Pulitzer Prize winner in his late 60s, punched the face of feature writer Manuel Roig-Franzia—right there in

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March 29, 2009 Media

Slate press guy vs. hype about newspapers as saviors of democracy

Mencken (photo) loved newspapering. But he did his best to be impervious to the industry ballyhoo, and I think he’d

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March 2, 2009 Media / Sen. Ribicoff

The trash factor: A big reason why newspapers are in trouble? And how can they cope with it?

Despite the dark humor in my Washington newspaper novel, The Solomon Scandals is also an exercise in nostalgia—taking us back

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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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November 29, 2008 Uncategorized

The ACTUAL Telegram?

A friend and I had just seen a movie with a soft-spoken and obscenity-free editor, a balding Boy Scout of

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