A review of The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley (and more and more and more and more). From n+1, what’s killing The New York Times? A review of War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle To Control an American Business Empire by Sarah Ellison. As The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bash each other, the Financial Times, led by its sharp, glamorous new U.S. editor, Gillian Tett, intends to become a status symbol of American business. In 1964, a new paper rolled off the presses: the Atlanta Times, a conservative, pro-segregationist alternative to the Journal and Constitution; fifteen months later, it was gone for good. W. Joseph Campbell on his book Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism. Another newspaper myth fades away: Romantic journalists used to swear by the idea that taxi drivers were unimpeachable sources — not true, but never give up riding in cabs. The reporter who time forgot: Michael Shapiro on how Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day changed journalism. An excerpt from What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism by Jack Fuller. An interview with Peter Stothard on books on editing newspapers. An interview with Lee C. Bollinger, author of Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century (and more). Who owns the First Amendment?: Journalists think they do — they’re wrong. Why not pay sources? Objections should be practical, not ethical. The changing face of network television news: Network news anchors and correspondents are a far more diverse group than they were two decades ago. Look at Me: A writer’s search for journalism in the age of branding, by Maureen Tkacik.
