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If journalists are often told not to write “dog bites man” stories, the instruction is rarely literal. The New York Times reports, however, that this is exactly what happened at the LA Times last month when that paper’s owner, the billionaire medical entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong, expressed concerns about a story the paper was looking into […]
In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism were to suddenly disappear. An expert on the history of US news media, Schudson speculated in his book, The Power of News, that peoples’ need to identify the day’s most important and relevant news