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Journalism that explains

From AJR, as traditional news organizations shed state government reporters, a wide array of innovative startups is rising to fill the gap; and many news outlets are doing far less accountability reporting than in the past, bad news indeed for the public — new nonprofit investigative ventures have emerged, but they can’t pick up the slack by themselves. Who's a journalist, and does that matter?: What should we call the people who are creating valuable new information in the new-media ecosystem? As fewer and fewer people use portals to access the Internet, AOL and Yahoo! are hiring journalists and posting their own material in an effort to bolster Web traffic. What's the future of journalism? Loren Ghiglione believes he might have found some answers in an unlikely place — science fiction. A review of Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post — A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life by Dave Kindred. Newspaper's last gasp: Conrad Black on the future of old media. The Substance of Things: What the country needs now is journalism that explains policy. The Peril and Promise of the Semantic Web: What is the role of the journalist as computers become more adept at pulling together data from different sources? Behind the News: An interview with New York Times reporter Michael Powell. From the Ryerson Review of Journalism, Google hasn't made newspaper research librarians redundant — in fact, they're as busy as ever, even if they rarely receive the recognition they deserve; Jessica Lewis on the art of the ambush; and are local journalists and fixers in hot spots cut loose by our news media? A review of Missing: Half the Story: Journalism as if Gender Matters by Kalpana Sharma. Sworn Out: How vulgar can you be?