News in Brief Some Newspaper Endorsements for President Matter a Lot Research on the last two contests finds that, under specific circumstances, endorsements can significantly increase a candidate’s chances… Pacific Standard Staff
Social Justice The Continued Decline of the Alt-Weekly What the death of the iconic City Paper means to Philadelphia. Jake Blumgart
Social Justice The Evolving Obituary The unusually candid obituary for Coleen Sheran Singer received widespread attention. Is it a sign of a changing format? Melissa Batchelor Warnke
Economics That Time a Newspaper Stared Down the Country’s Largest Advertiser and Won A little-remembered incident helped establish the notion that news organizations could and should preserve their independence from advertisers. Richard Tofel
Social Justice Jason Collins, Revisited A new study explores how newspapers and social media framed a historic first. Sam Riches
News in Brief How Different Countries Involved in the Iranian Nuclear Negotiations Reported on That GOP Letter He-said-she-said has rarely been so fun to read. Francie Diep
Social Justice Media as Both Weapon and Defense in the Mexican Drug War The impact of social media and the press on the drug war, and vice versa. Lauren Kirchner
Economics ‘The New York Times’ Is Dying Hardly. Brain drain is an indicator of success, a sure sign of a talent refinery at work. Jim Russell
Economics Today in Saving Print: The Green Bay Packers Model Via The Guardian: A bad call but a great metaphor A German newspaper, Die Tageszeitung, has figured out how… Marc Herman
Economics How Google Disrespected Mexican History Opinion: Anything can happen when Google gets involved in digitizing national treasure troves of archived information, warns a frustrated scholar. Richard J. Salvucci