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There is no business like the media business when it comes to generating lively headlines. From plagiarism to imploding start-ups to the riptide that ousted The New York Times‘ top editor, it’s been an eye-popping year to cover the media.
Here are just a few of the top pieces our editors chose on stories large and small:
- We’re all aggregators now: So we should be ethical about it.
- Bowe Bergdahl, Pat Tillman, and the media’s problem with simplifying soldiers: Why it’s problematic for the press to define heroes or traitors.
- Uncommon ground: J. Anthony Lukas realized something larger than the truth.
- The ethics of The Guardian’s Whisper bombshell: It would have been a journalistic lapse not to have told readers.
- Eye in the sky: Drones are cheap, simple, and potential game changers for newsrooms.
- The king of content: How Upworthy aims to alter the Web, and could end up altering the world.
- Ezra Klein and the early-mover disadvantage: No one knows if these new personal-franchise journalism ventures are going to work.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates defines a new race beat: The Atlantic writer looks to the past to confront contemporary racism.
- And from the left…Fox News: There’s more to Fox News’ strategy of hiring liberals than creating a public boxing match.
- The 10th anniversary of a photo that changed the Iraq War: An image from Fallujah and its consequences.
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