Ray Richmond on How He Wound Up Watching Television for a Living
The entertainment columnist on the strange professional privilege of spending your workday watching other people's shows.
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Mary Berner on Her Year-Long Hiatus and Coming Back to Restructure the Publishing World
After a year away from publishing, the former Fairchild president returns with a fresh mandate to restructure what's broken in the industry.
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Steve Shepard on Going From BusinessWeek Editor to Dean of CUNY’s Journalism School
The former BusinessWeek editor on why he left the industry for academia -- and what he thinks journalism education needs to teach next.
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Stanley Bing Comes Clean on Life as a Pen Name
The Fortune columnist on the freedom of writing under an assumed name -- and the strange double life it creates.
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Nicholas Lemann, the ‘Pope of MSM,’ on Running the Columbia Journalism School
The Columbia Journalism School dean on training reporters for a rapidly changing industry -- and what the critics of mainstream media get wrong.
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Candy Crowley on How She Grew to Love Journalism and What CNN Taught Her
The CNN senior political correspondent on starting out with a different career in mind -- and the beat that won her over permanently.
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Steven Heller on Being the Most Prolific Design Writer Anywhere (Who Doesn’t Want a Blog)
The Times art director on his extraordinary output as a design writer -- and why, despite everything, he has no interest in starting a blog.
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Matt Welch on Taking His Opinionated Iconoclasm to the LA Times Opinion Page
The blogosphere iconoclast on moving inside a major newspaper -- and whether print institutions can handle the opinions he brings.
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Ken Auletta on Exactly How He Covers the Media Business for The New Yorker
A follow-up with The New Yorker's media writer on his reporting process, his sources, and the secrets of a long-running beat.
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Karen Grigsby Bates: NPR Correspondent, Guest Host, Mystery Writer, Chef
The NPR correspondent on covering race and culture, hosting when required, writing mysteries for fun, and cooking everything else.
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