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Author Archives: Luke Ford
What would it look like if the Financial Times put its reader first?
The FT serves the people who advise, finance, regulate, and second-guess those who run the world economy such as fund managers, central bankers, finance ministers, corporate officers, consultants, economists, sovereign wealth managers, development officials. The paper’s natural constituency is the … Continue reading
What It Would Mean for the Washington Post to Put the Reader First?
The The New York Times sits near the center of the country’s intellectual life. The Wall Street Journal sits near its financial life. The Washington Post sits inside the federal state. Its reporters spend their days among members of Congress, … Continue reading
What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First
The New York Times is the most influential American newspaper. It reports the news, and it also supplies the framework through which the country’s governing class understands itself. Editors at other papers watch what it features. Network producers build segments … Continue reading
What It Would Mean for The Wall Street Journal to Put the Reader First
Wall Street Journal readers don’t read for affirmation. Instead, they seek working intelligence more than affiliation. A man reads the Journal to act. He allocates capital, prices risk, hires, files, builds, regulates, or sues, and he needs the paper to … Continue reading
What It Would Mean for the Los Angeles Times to Put the Reader First?
Every newspaper claims to serve its readers. The claim costs nothing. A publisher invokes public trust at the annual gala. An editor cites the public interest in a memo to the staff. The phrase carries the weight of a creed … Continue reading
Tom Clancy: Novelist of the National-Security State
Tom Clancy (1947-2013) was an interpreter of military institutions, a media entrepreneur, and an architect of the modern techno-thriller. Nobody of his generation did more to turn technical questions of military systems, intelligence operations, naval warfare, and national security into … Continue reading
David Remnick: From Lenin’s Tomb to the Paywall
David Remnick (b. 1958) is principal figure of American literary journalism over the past four decades. He works as a reporter, a biographer, a foreign correspondent, an essayist, and the editor of The New Yorker, a post he has held … Continue reading
Emma Tucker: Running Toward the Fire
Emma Tucker (b. 1966) edits The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, the first woman to lead the paper since its founding in 1889. Her career maps the transformation of elite Anglo-American journalism across three decades. She rose through … Continue reading
Matt Murray: The Custodian
Matt Murray (b. 1966) holds a place in American journalism that rests less on a signature investigation or a body of prose than on his stewardship of large institutions through their hardest decades. He rose from the reporting core of … Continue reading
The Chroniclers: Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, and the Sociology of Pop
The Pet Shop Boys form in London in 1981 around the partnership of Neil Tennant (b. 1954) and Chris Lowe (b. 1959). Across more than four decades they hold a distinctive place in the history of modern popular music. They … Continue reading