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the issueMEDIA

What Is Hillary Clinton Afraid Of? | 12

By Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman

Is Jake Tapper CNN’s Future—Or Its Past? | 30A real D.C. reporter and a network at a crossroads.By Reid Cherlin

F E AT U R E

Queen Mary | 36Mary McGrory and the lost art of the Washington prima donna.By John Norris

H I S T O R Y D E P T.

The White House Beat, Uncovered | 24Members of the White House

press corps tell us what it’s really like to cover the

president.

S U R V E Y

About Last Night | 84Scenes from the White House

Correspondents’ Dinner— from Arianna’s Jersey

boys to Barack’s bangs.

L A S T W O R D

By Steve BrodnerCOVER: Art by Post Typography

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‘The New York Times Is Not

Going to Turn Into BuzzFeed’ | 76

1. Destroy the Village. 2. Save It. |

50Why Silicon Valley VCs

suddenly love the media.By Ken Doctor

s Why I’m Bullish on the News | 57

By Marc Andreessen

How to Lose $100 Million | 62

The undoing of Tina Brown.

By Luke O’Brien

Interview by Susan Glasser

A frank conversation with the former

editors of the Post and the Times.

Lords of the Viral Internet | 60

By Jesse Hicks

Three masters of their craft on how they make you click.