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Tribune Quits AP for a Week, Should Really Quit Paper Itself

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 2 November 2009
I’d love to see Tribune papers really get some good reporting here, not just from within but from experienced beat-bloggers, city-bloggers, and more comprehensive, microfunded reporting as done by the likes of spot.us. Personally I think the best way to cut costs is to slowly let the printed version of the paper wither away, until [...]
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Why Call it ‘Breaking’ or ‘Developing’ When it’s Not?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 17 July 2009
Call me easily perturbed by 24-hour news media shock lingo, but CNN and CNN.com can’t seem to post a story without having an alarming red bar over or under it, indicating either developing or breaking story. Case in point, when Tiger Woods misses the cut at the British Open it is NOT a developing story. It [...]
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Three MF’in Cheers for The New Yorker Podcasts

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 16 December 2008
As a longtime New Yorker subscriber (that’s right, in print), you’d wonder why I’d bother with the podcasts as well. I can lay any questions to rest here. Each Monday (a few days before the issue lands in my mailbox) there is a lively, informed discussion with New Yorker Web editor Blake Eskin takes place [...]
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