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These bright modern times can be a little gloomy for the “Grey Lady” of journalism, otherwise known as The New York Times. First off, she??s getting older, and a little lonelier—former subscribers screening her calls as the rest of the industry’s circulation dives, both hometown readership and stock plunging like the Andrea Doria (which she remembers). Yes, she??s gussied herself up for the kids online, but it’s not the same; video just feels wrong. Her pride is intact...
...estimable Gray Lady has slipped a bit: she??s sometimes unreliable and sometimes a little weird. We must see, though: it didn’t used to be this way! She was a nice girl! For proof we need only turn to the Times itself, at the start of its original salad days, just before the turn of the century. In an October 1897 article, George P. Rowell explains the paper’s sudden success. Instead of cutting rate, the staff upped the ante with a “strict insistence upon absolutely trustworthy and impartial news...
...Using the French and Italian she??d mastered as a Romance Languages and Literatures concentrator, McCulla conducted research for the Open Source Center, an office in suburban Virginia originally created to monitor Russian transmissions during the onset of the Cold...
...didn’t get to carry a gun, but her work did involve classified information—and she??s still not entirely sure what the consequences of her research really were. “We had two computers under the desk and just one screen,” McCulla says. “There was a little box with a switch on it and hundreds of times a day, we’d push the switch and it’d flip from one computer to the other. We’d have two separate email...
...She??s also hoping to start a film screening and a visiting speakers series to further engage students in the world of food. The research and writing skills she cultivated during her time at the CIA are currently being put to use searching for land for a new farmers’ market in Allston, set to open this spring...