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News and Commentary

• New York Times: Why Parallels Between Netflix and Amazon Should Worry Media Titans, by Farhad Manjoo (Jan 13, 2016)
• Real Clear Politics: Inside the Garden of Political Town Hall Plants, by Michelle Malkin (Jan 6, 2016)
• New York Times: Sheldon Adelson’s Purchase of Las Vegas Paper Seen as a Power Play, by Ravi Somaiya, Ian Lovett and Barry Meier (Jan 1, 2016)
• Columbia Journalism Review: The transformation of David Brooks, by Danny Funt (Oct 27, 2015)
• American Press Institute: Twitter and the News: How people use the social network to learn about the world, by Tom Rosenstiel, Jeff Sonderman, Kevin Loker, Maria Ivancin and Nina Kjarval (Sept 1, 2015)
• The Daily Beast: The Fox News Thorn in Hillary’s Side, by Lloyd Grove (Aug 28, 2015)
• Politico: Trump Meets His Match in Jorge Ramos, by Jack Shafer (Aug 25, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: MSNBC’s Reboot: More News, Less ‘Leaning’, by Joe Flint (Aug 11, 2015)
• New York Times: Jon Stewart, Sarcastic Critic of Politics and Media, Is Signing Off, by John Koblin (Aug 4, 2015)
• New York Times: Up for Sale, The Economist Is Unlikely to Alter Its Voice, by Ravi Somaiya (Aug 3, 2015)
• Wall St Journal: For New York Times, a Gamble on Giveaways, by Lukas I. Alpert (Aug 2, 2015)
• Washington Post: Can we go on without Jon Stewart? Of course we can. He’s shown us how., by Hank Stuever (July 29, 2015)
• New York Times: Will Dana, Rolling Stone’s Managing Editor, to Depart, by Ravi Somaiya (July 28, 2015)
• The Daily Beast: Why Did ‘Frontline’ Kill Lowell Bergman’s Gambling Documentary?, by Lloyd Grove (July 6, 2015)
• The Guardian: BBC to cut more than 1,000 jobs in cost-savings push, by Jane Martinson (Jul 2, 2015)
• New York Times: Wikipedia Pages of Star Clients Altered by P.R. Firm, by Michael Cieply (June 22, 2015)
• Washington Post: How a curmudgeonly old reporter exposed the FIFA scandal that toppled Sepp Blatter, by Michael E. Miller (June 3, 2015)
• National Journal: How to Kill the Background Briefing, by Ron Fournier (June 1, 2015)
• The Intercept: Video: I.F. Stone’s One Weird Trick to Do Great Journalism, by Jon Schwarz (May 7, 2015)

Books

• The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas, by Robert W. McChesney, ISBN 978-1583671610. Reviews:
  • Political Media Review: The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas, review by David Weiss (Mar 29, 2010)
• The Powers That Be, by David Halberstam, ISBN 978-0252069413
  • New York Times review by Richard Rovere (Apr 22, 1979)

Reports

• Congressional Reports Services: Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment, by Henry Cohen, Legislative Attorney (Oct 16, 2009)