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

The Old News

Meg Martin wrote the other day about Alex Wolfe's tips on doing the historical feature. Fantastic opportunities exist for that, although we don't do many in the news pages. We've talked about Michael Brick's The Man Who Walked Away and a few others. But it seems like sports writers do this more.

Two examples: Alex Zesch pointed out Year Zero from the OC Weekly, and Keith Goldberg passed along Long Memories From A Baseball Classic, from the Washington Post. Both are good reads. Both make me want to do something similar. Anybody have success with these? How did you start? Where did you go?

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