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Paul Krugman

Good journalism’s demand ‘problem’

November 18, 2008

The Columbia Journalism Review takes on a familiar trope - the scarcity of attention - and riffs on it in relation to journalism.
Attention—our most precious resource—is in increasingly short supply. To win the war for our attention, news organizations must make themselves indispensable by producing journalism that helps make sense of the flood of information that […]

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The educated palate: a media lesson from a new Nobel prize winner

October 13, 2008

Paul Krugman didn’t win the Nobel prize for economics for this. But maybe he should have. It’s a meditation on British food and why it was once so dreadful. (And there’s surely a lesson in there about education and media consumption.)

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