My new CJR column points out that the 2016 general election trial heat polls currently being reported now have no predictive value and displace attention from the real action taking place in the invisible primary: We’re still almost three years away from November 2016, but political journalists seem to want to fast-forward past the ongoing

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My new column at CJR reports on new research into the civic benefits of newspapers and the challenges facing new journalism business models in preserving those benefits. Here’s how it begins: It seems like ambitious new journalism projects are everywhere these days. The announcement that former New York Times editor Bill Keller will lead a

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