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"Dark Days at Newspaper" is a headline that could run on the front page of almost any daily paper in America. Advertising, circulation and relevance are heading downward, and with rounds of layoffs and spending cuts, the cranky, daylight-deprived souls who toil away in newspaper offices are understandably gloomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Newsroom Murder Mystery | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

So the dark underground caverns of a prestigious New York newspaper are the right setting for the murder at the outset of Black and White and Dead All Over (Knopf; 368 pages) by John Darnton, the author of biology-fiction thrillers Neanderthal and The Darwin Conspiracy. A 30-year veteran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Newsroom Murder Mystery | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

Black and White is really a novel about the Times (where I once worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent), thinly disguised as a murder mystery. What elevates it to the top of any beach-reading pile is its dead-on depiction of the idiosyncratic life of a big-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Newsroom Murder Mystery | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

The plot of Black and White is engrossing from the get-go. The first murder victim is a much-hated editor who supervised the newspaper's standards of word choice, and who personifies the tyrannical, pretentious side of the Times. (The inside joke here is that the victim, Theodore Ratnoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Newsroom Murder Mystery | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

Darnton, a talented correspondent and editor, excelled at the Times but never won promotion to the highest ranks, allowing him a bitingly accurate perspective on how things really work at the paper. Only now, after his recent retirement, could he write what amounts to a tell-all about the newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Newsroom Murder Mystery | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

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