Second Rough Draft
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Reflections on retiring from practice, with gratitude.
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Three areas where I see the chances for innovation now.
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Reporting on law-making would benefit from more about the legislation itself, less about members personally.
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if journalists deserve special protection, not everyone warrants the label
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Things in and around journalism that have gone badly, but also pretty well
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Even with its inaccuracies and suspect motives, the public needed to know what the dossier said.
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What we should have learned about reporting on the pandemic
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From AP and CBS to the New York Times, it's fueling the sports betting craze.
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Why we need, and may now get, top talent on both sides of the newsroom Wall
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Learning from Barney Kilgore around the anniversaries of his birth and death
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Their ability to profit off a death spiral is a symptom of deeper problems.
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A big story arrives, but too late for voters to consider.
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