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The Essay It's a Hack's Life Episodes

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  1. In my end is my beginning: freelancing in an online world

    5/5 Michael Goldfarb looks at a model for the news business in the future.

  2. The Cult of the Presenter

    4/5 In this episode, the influence of news programming based around a studio presenter.

  3. Foreign Correspondent

    3/5 Michael Goldfarb talks about building a career reporting as a foreign correspondent.

  4. New Business Models: Debt and Gannett

    2/5 In the 1980s, one man built America's biggest newspaper chain and founded USA Today.

  5. The Primacy of the Instant: CNN and Computers

    1/5 The history of the changes in news reporting in US journalism over the last 40 years.