Game 7 of the 1960 World Series was, until November 2, 2016 at approximately 11:45 Central Time the most thrilling championship baseball game ever played. It…

The Reporter Whom Time Forgot

By Michael Shapiro

(this story originally appeared in Columbia Journalism Review)

In 1957, an expatriate Irish newspaperman struggling to make a buck after his most recent employer went under began making the rounds of magazine editors and book…

Originally published in Columbia Journalism Review

Six degrees of aggregation

How The Huffington Post ate the Internet

By Michael Shapiro

Originally appeared in Columbia Journalism Review

The Newspaper That Almost Seized the Future

The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s own daily, was poised to ride the digital whirlwind. What happened?

And how she helped a longform story from an unknown site get to 120,000+ page…