Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the p

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The media covers social minorities regularly in the daily churn of news. A lot of that coverage just skims the happenings of the day—a court win, an activist group announcement, what a controversial figure said on his Twitter feed. But sometimes

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The dilemma for journalists this week: How should you cover a series of proto-scandals with seemingly little in common? As far as we know, internal Obama administration edits of talking points about the Benghazi attacks, Internal Revenue Service targeting

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Many journalists may be shocked by Monday’s revelation that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) used a subpoena to obtain phone records for several AP bureaus last year, in a pattern that the New York Times reports, “strongly suggeste

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The media covers social minorities regularly in the daily churn of news. A lot of that coverage just skims the happenings of the day—a court win, an activist group announcement, what a controversial figure said on his Twitter feed. But sometimes

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In a 2011 court case in Diyarbakır, Turkey, a student is on trial for membership in a terrorist organization. The case is legally open to the public, but no journalists are present in the small, cramped courtroom. After several hours, one of the police of

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THANK YOUGee, as government basically controls U.S. medicine -- with the mess of cross-subsidization for Medicare and Medicaid -- you've just made the case for more privatization and repeal of the ridiculous "OweBama-Care."Thank you, madam.#1 Po

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Last week’s release of the wildly varying prices that hospitals charge Medicare may no longer be news du jour, but it’s worth revisiting the topic, because it was and is an important story, it was an important step by the government, a

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Conservatives are howling about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups applying for nonprofit tax exemptions.Well, welcome to our world. Nonprofit journalism has been going through the same thing for the last few years, with almost none of the screeching&

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Last week, my declaration that this is the best moment to be working in journalism was met with some side-eye after outlets from the Daily News to, cough, the Columbia Journalism Review announced layoffs. “BREAKING: No it’s not,&#

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“Give us this day our daily plinth,” my father, Red Smith, and his pal, Joe Palmer, the racing columnist, would pray, one with a scotch and soda in hand, the other bourbon and branch water, as they convened in Palmer’s book-l

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We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. That’s Peggy Noonan today in

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Nautilus, a new science magazine whose first issue appeared online April 29, has New York Times reporter Dennis Overbye, one of the beat’s veterans, feeling a bit a nostalgic. In a review on Monday, he wrote: Many science writers at The New York

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Offbeat

To walk through San Francisco is to examine the area’s lurid, sometimes brutal mid-nineteenth-century origins. Each street has a story. Guerrero Street is named for Francisco Guerrero, a landowner and politician killed by a slingshot-wielding ho

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Technology

On September 22, 2012, Jessica Ann Lum took the stage to accept her award for Best Feature in the student-journalist category from the Online News Association. As the lights in the San Francisco Hyatt Regency’s Grand Ballroom glinted off the sil

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