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Archives: August 19, 2019

Joshua BentonAugust 19, 2019

So Youngstown will have a daily named The Vindicator after all. But it’s a brand surviving, not a newspaper.

Long after the local newspaper business stops making any sense at all, there’ll be a lot of powerful brand names that will retain value better than what the printing presses pumped out. That’s how we’ll get local news outlets without much local news.

R. Kelly Garrett, Robert Bond, and Shannon PoulsenAugust 19, 2019

Maybe you know that article is satire, but a lot of people can’t tell the difference

Labeling satire as such may seem to take the sting out of the joke. But it’s also the most effective way we know of to prevent people from taking satirical content as fact — something surprisingly common.

Christine SchmidtAugust 19, 2019

This reporter came for ER bills (with the help of 1,000-plus patients), and now doctors are listening

Sarah Kliff has brought her healthcare billing projects from Vox to The New York Times, reporting on the submissions of thousands of readers. And now she’s written for an audience of practitioners and academics.