Geoff Van Dyke is deputy editor of 5280 Magazine in Denver.
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The Future of Advertising, by Danielle Sacks, Fast Company
A must-read for anyone in the media business.
Innocence Lost, by Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly
Instrumental in getting a Texas man off death row and out of prison.
Burger Queen, by Lauren Collins, The New Yorker
Deep, revealing profile of chef April Bloomfield.
The Jihadist Next Door, by Andrea Elliott, New York Times Magazine
What happens when an American is the face of the Islamist insurgency?
Hackers Gone Wild: The Fast Times & Hard Fall of the Green Hat Gang, by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Rolling Stone
Sex, drugs, and hacking … it doesn’t get better than this.
What Good Is Wall Street, by John Cassidy, The New Yorker
How banks made trading, which has no social value according to Cassidy, their major source of revenue.