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Category Archives: Journalism
Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas
The story of Steve Wynn (b. 1942) and the reporters who covered him reaches past one casino executive and the writers who tracked him. It opens onto the relationship between concentrated private wealth and the institutions meant to scrutinize it. … Continue reading
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The Workplace City: John L. Smith and the Lives Behind Las Vegas
A fourth-generation Nevadan, John L. Smith (b. 1960) wrote a column for the Las Vegas Review-Journal for nearly three decades, worked earlier at the Las Vegas Sun, and now contributes a Sunday column to The Nevada Independent. His byline has … Continue reading
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Ben Mezrich: Mythographer of Disruption
Ben Mezrich (b. 1969) writes at the border of narrative journalism, commercial fiction, business history, and cinematic storytelling. Over a quarter century he is a chronicler of the digital economy and a leading popular narrator of technological disruption. His books … Continue reading
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Michael Wolff and the Sociology of Power
Michael Wolff (b. 1953) writes about power. For five decades he has studied the men who own and run American media, and through them the politicians, financiers, and celebrities whose reputations the press builds and breaks. He occupies a strange … Continue reading
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Who Sees First: Michael Lewis and the Sociology of Expertise
Michael Lewis (b. 1960) writes nonfiction for a mass readership, and across four decades he has built a body of work that reads, in sum, as a study of how institutions know things and how they fail to know them. … Continue reading
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Robert Draper and The Grandson’s Question
Robert Draper (b. 1959) reports on American institutions under stress. His career runs more than three decades, and across it he builds a form of political journalism that joins narrative craft, elite access, institutional history, and political sociology. Many political … Continue reading
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Centering Marginalized Voices
Picture a weekly desk that takes the prestige press, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, lifts out their house phrases, and renders them into plain speech. The desk … Continue reading
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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
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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
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