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Words & Reflections

Steve Weinberg writes about the inner fire that made Jack Anderson love to kick Nixon around, Dan Kennedy looks at a new take on the complicated life of Marshall McLuhan, and j-school student Christina Kim reconsiders her options after reading Tom Rachman’s novel about a failing newspaper. In addition to these three books, the latest issue of Nieman Reports highlights “The Deal From Hell” by James O’Shea and “The Filter Bubble” by Eli Pariser.

Words & Reflections
The Inner Fire of Muckraking Journalists
‘… without the time-honored, shoe-leather investigative work and skillful interviewing, passion and outrage amount to little in the journalism realm.’
By Steve Weinberg
Steve Weinberg: Connections and Disclosures
By Steve Weinberg
Deciphering the Life of a Complicated Thinker
A novelist turned biographer places ‘[Marshall] McLuhan’s maddeningly difficult ideas in a recognizably human context.’
By Dan Kennedy
A Failing Newsroom—Described With a Novelist’s Touch (1 comment)
Tom Rachman ‘is telling this story at a perfect time as newspapers shed staff and costs and, in some cases, shut down their presses altogether.’
By Christina Kim