Nieman Reports
Winter 2013
Critical Condition

“If you are counting full-time critic jobs at newspapers, you may as well count tombstones.” That was the response of Johanna Keller, director of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, to a Nieman Reports query about the number of professional critics employed at dailies around the country. The figures on newspaper critics (News flash: they’re not good) are one indication of the state of criticism today, but they are not the only one.
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Winter 2013: Class Notes
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“The End is Inevitable, But Not Predictable”
By Anthony Lewis
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“Get This Boy in Our Stable”
By Dan Wakefield
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Waiting it Out in Kings Tavern
By Dave McNeely
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Bolivia by Bus
By Raul Peñaranda
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“They Promised to Take Our Land, and They Took It”
By Steve Northup
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From Twitter to Gellhorn via Mexico
By Daniel Eilemberg, Hong Qu and Kate Smith
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