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Reporting in a Social Media World

  Then, Fassihi went beyond mere description of the carnage, using whatshe thought was the comfort zone of a private email to go beyond standard journalistic norms . ― Despite…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (330 words)

“The trail is high-tech, a Silicon Valley on...

"The trail is high-tech, a Silicon Valley on wheels. On any given campaign, on any given morning, the bus hums with the tap-tap-tap of eager fingers typing on briefcase-size lap-top computers.…

Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?

Twice a year, close to 200 teams of aspiring tech entrepreneurs, most in their 20s, converge on Mountain View, in Silicon Valley, vying for a spot at Y Combinator, the seven-year-old seed-funding…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5166 words)

If you are lucky, you stop seeing the world as a series of things you do not have — a boyfriend, a baby, an adorable terrier – and you start noticing the things you do have. A healthy bank account, unburdened by mortgages or school loans. No romantic tie

Curious on the Road If you are lucky, you stop seeing the world as a series of things you do not have — a boyfriend, a baby, an adorable terrier – and you start noticing the things you…

Marie Colvin’s Private War

HER WAY Marie Colvin takes notes in a bombed-out house in Homs, Syria, on her last assignment. The photograph was taken by Paul Conroy, who was with her when she died, days later. Right, a 2008…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (252 words)

Vanishing Voices

Tuvan The Compassion of Khoj Özeeri One morning in early fall Andrei Mongush and his parents began preparations for supper, selecting a black-faced, fat-tailed sheep from their flock and rolling…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4652 words)

How Germany Phased Out Nuclear Power, Only to Get Mugged by Reality

Berlin, Germany—For years, environmentalists in America have looked longingly to Germany. There, across the Atlantic, lay a small, cold, gray country whose solar energy production dwarfed big,…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (886 words)

Bloomberg and Reuters

There’s no mistaking where Andy Lack feels Bloomberg LP is positioned versus its competitors. “We may be the last man standing,” says Lack, who oversees the news…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2047 words)

The Lost Party

(Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine) On a biting, brittle mid-February morning 30 miles north of Detroit, Rick Santorum plants his flag in a patch of turf as politically…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 25, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (826 words)
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