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Journalism on sale

From Slate, Tim Egan, Michael Kinsley, Michael Newman, Emily Yoffe and others on a news junkie smackdown. An interview with Slate's Jacob Weisberg on the changing media landscape. Lost in cyberspace: The peculiar challenges of archiving newspapers in the Information Age. Journalism on sale: As workers in an ailing industry look for new ways to peddle their skills, piecework paid for directly by the public becomes an option. All the news that's free to print: Is charity the newspaper industry's last, best hope? The rebirth of news: The internet is killing newspapers and giving birth to a new sort of news business. Death of the Newspaperman: Don’t blame the Internet, the industry’s decline is self-inflicted. From Miller-McCune, here's a primer on media in the 21st century (and part 2). How much of a political crusader was Walter Cronkite? Todd Gitlin investigates (and more and more and more). A J-Schooler makes a name for himself: C.W. Anderson dedicated his recently-completed journalism dissertation to covering, well, journalism. How the "celebrity-journalist" myth ruined reporting: Too many people thought they might be Woodward & Bernstein; too few recognized how unglamorous the industry really is. Eric Alterman on conflicts of interest by the wealthy and for the wealthy.