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Is the New Model Safe for Democracy?

February 12, 2009
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Geneva Overholser is a pulitzer prize winning newspaper editor and former ombudsman of the Washington Post. She's currently the director of the journalism program at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Overholser explains what's at risk as journalism undergoes a major transition from being funded by advertising.

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