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"Bezaubern" Zurich on a Short Business Trip

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 08.27.2011

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Magda Abu-Fadil

Feasting my eyes on hand-made Swiss chocolate while on a business trip to Zurich was sheer nirvana. We're talking serious chocolate, the kind made fresh daily by hand in front of admiring aficionados.

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It's Time for the Media to Integrate the Race Beat

Dori J. Maynard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dori J. Maynard

Whatever the initial rationale behind "mainstream media" leaving white people out of the race beat, recent events argue that it's time to reexamine that decision.

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Chicago News Blogs Have Put Enough Skin in the Game

Sally Duros | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sally Duros

For nearly two decades, newspapers have been challenged to evolve into knowledge-based organizations capable of adapting to the innovations of the Web. Instead of progressing, they've been traded as chits in a greedy money-grab game by short-sighted media conglomerates.

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How To Fell the News Media

Libby Mitchell | Posted 11.17.2011

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Libby Mitchell

There is a secret weapon that could be utilized to bring down every news organization in the world. Brilliant in simplicity, relatively easy to make, ...

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Why Chain-Smoking Boozehounds Make The Best Journalists

Slate | Jack Shafer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Every profession needs what academics call an "occupational mythology" to sustain it, a set of personal and social dramas, arrangements, and devices, ...

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