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Lizzie O'Leary, Bloomberg TV's Washington correspondent, gives her tips on how to effectively tell a story using data. This video is a part of the YouTube R...

This video shows some of the techniques we use for PolitiFact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political site from the St. Petersburg Times. This video is a p... "Be skeptical. Verify everything."

"He had developed night vision for detecting new styles of life. "Style of life"-Lebensstil in German-was a term invented a hundred years ago by the German sociologist Max Weber, the father of status theory itself. All new styles of life, he said, were created by "status groups," like-minded souls who try to create spheres of their own, insulated from the opinions of people outside. The socialites of the Saturday route had their style of life in the 1960s … and hippies had theirs. It was not until the late 1950s that the terms themselves, "status," referring to social position, and "style of life," referring to the manners and mores of status groups, emerged from academic sociology and became part of everyday language."

5 Reasons to Love Service Journalism\n\nSpring 2008\nService is the fast food of the magazine industry. That doesn't mean it can't be a full, nutritious meal\nby Jessica Lockhart

The printed word has always had an Achilles heel: factual mistakes. Can the electronic reader help? Anthony Gottlieb investigates ...  read more »

SHOUTS & MURMURS casual about genocidal Cambodian despot Pol Pot... Pol Pot has a problem. It is 11 a.m. on a warm, lazy California morning and he's having breakfast poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The problem is that he ordered the flapjacks, and the waitress has just brought him…

Just how poorly constructed was Sarah Palin?s good-bye speech? V.F. editor Wayne Lawson whips it into publishable shape, with a lot of help from his red pencil.

Through half a decade of war, a team of 100 Reuters correspondents, photographers, cameramen and support staff have strived to bring the world news from the most dangerous country for the press. This is their testimony - bearing witness to ensure the story of Iraq is not lost.

"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism.

Also see Katie Roiphe's interview with Talese. Roiphe, Katie "The Art of Nonfiction No. 2: Gay Talese", Paris Review, Issue 189, Summer 2009 http://www.parisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/5925

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