Six Degrees of Aggregation

How Huffington Post Ate the Internet
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/six_degrees_of_aggregation.php?

The Paper Chase; A Second Read

New in this issue of Columbia Journalisn Review
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Sporting Scene: Lawrence Taylor

The Mind of Lawrence Taylor

Another from Sporting Scene

Yankees versus Obama’s Team

New Yorker’s Sporting Scene

Santana’s Bad Night

From The New Yorker’s Sporting Scene

Can These Be the Mets?

In CJR on Paid Content for Newspapers

In the dark winter and spring of 2009, as dispatches from the news business grew ever more grim, as Jim Romenesko’s posts took on the feel of casualty reports, newsrooms across the land began to feel like the Emerald City when the Wicked Witch soars overhead, trailing smoke and sending everyone scurrying not for cover, but for an answer, to the Wizard. So it was that in the midst of this gloomy time help appeared, and not merely
the illusion of a wizardly hand. It came from Walter Isaacson and from Steven Brill, who were quickly joined by a determined chorus that, no longer willing to stand idly by as its trade died, took up a call that was clear, direct, and seemingly unassailable in its logic: make the readers pay.

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Huffington Post on Baseball and Pay-Tv

This month marks the 45th anniversary of baseball’s first pay-to-view major league baseball game, and with whom better to celebrate than the team that hosted that first telecast from the House that Walter O’Malley built?

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The NY Times on the Continental League

Monday is the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Continental League, and it is understandable if the moment does not trigger a flood of happy associations or, for that matter, any memories at all.

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Praise in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer

“A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era. . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons. Grade: A.”

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