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Lifeblood of Publishing: 10 Best Journalism Works of Decade

It’s easy to get hung up on the ‘death of publishing’ and to focus on what’s not happening or what could be done to ’save’ the industry.

A powerful reminder that the lifeblood of the news industry remains ground-breaking original reporting began coursing across the web yesterday when NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute released its “Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade, 2000-2009.”

The ten works (five newspaper series, four books, and a radio program) chosen by NYU from a group of 80 nominees represent ‘journalism that brilliantly met the challenges of the last decade.’ Quite a decade it was with reports on 9/11, the economic crisis, the Iraq war, Katrina and the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’ rounding out the list.

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