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By Barry Blitt

I’m a senior writer at Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

Before that, I edited the Columbia Daily Spectator, started the blog IvyGate, wrote for Newsweek, and then wrote the media column for The New York Observer.

BOOK: A Long Time Coming, by Evan Thomas with Daren Briscoe, Eleanor Clift, Katie Connolly, Peter Goldman, Michael Hastings, and Nick Summers

OP-ED: “Blogging the Ivy League’s Follies”; “College Sex: Going Home Alone”

NEWSPAPER: “Blank Slate”; “The Tina Brown Turnaround”; “The Great Murdoch iPad Debate”; “The Deal on DealBook”; “Turning Gawker on Itself”; “The New Mr. Big”“Inside the Media Hiring Bubble”“The Crisis at the Front of the Book”; “Talk to Me, Malcolm Gladwell!”

WEB: “Awards Shuffle Bruises Magazine Egos”; “Slate’s Traffic Is Gangbusters, Except…”“Filkins Poached by The New Yorker”; “‘Baghdad Diarist’ Still Pissed as Foer Exits TNR”; “Despite Murdoch, WSJ Still Wins Scoops”; “Ads Trump Articles as Newsweek Limps Into Tina Territory”“Snyder to Head Atlantic Wire”

MAGAZINE: “A Struggle Inside Alcoholics Anonymous”“Walking the Cyberbeat”; “New York City Embraces a Bold New Traffic Theory”“Building a Better Password”“Chaos Theory”; “The Great College Road Trip”; “Why Winners Win: The New Science of Triumph”; “Steve Jobs: Hollywood’s ‘Devilish Angel’”“Bloomberg’s Plan for World Domination”; “Going! Going! Gone: Has ESPN Gotten Too Big for Its Own Good?”; “Click This Ad Already!”; “The Speculator: Can Ted Sarandos Save Netflix — by Turning It Into HBO?

BROADCAST: 60 Minutes, Today, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, BBC, Al Jazeera English, NPR

(Illustration by Barry Blitt)