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Embarrassment of ‘Wiches

From a correction that was published by the Louisville Courier-Journal in July.

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The Missing

From advertisements taken out in African-American newspapers by former slaves searching for relatives. The earliest ads appeared in 1863. Villanova University and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia,…

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Final Edition
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Twilight of the American newspaper

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Outback Backout

The following correction was printed last year in the Australian, a daily newspaper published in Sydney. A story headlined “Syria seeks our help to woo U.S.” in Saturday’s Weekend Australian…

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The Decline of Book Reviewing
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The fates of authors and publishers — not to mention the reading public — depend on book reviews — but who reviews the reviewers? Miss Hardwich undertakes one of the few thorough critiques…

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