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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

'We just watched this world for four months'

How they did it

Nuggets on the Walter Reed investigative work from Anne Hull and Dana Priest in this E&P story, and a deeper Q and A from AJR:



Q: I've heard people in grocery stores and my local coffee shop talking about this story, which does not happen very often. Is this a reaffirmation of the power of newspaper journalism?



Hull: Well, you know, people are still reading newspapers, and they're still reading long stories in the newspaper, and actually, they're still reading long stories on the Web, and that's a good thing for people who care about telling stories... And hopefully this will be some kind of subtle message to other newsrooms that if you can spare the time and the resources to turn a…

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