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<p> Kirkus , June 1, 2011<br> Numerous books have covered endangered daily newspapers, but few relate the sad saga from the perspective of a top editor with investigative reporting experience... Given O'Shea's level of detail and candor, some journalism icons will almost surely lose respect within their field...A spirited, fascinating insider's account of a troubled realm. <p> New Statesman , January 7, 2011<br> This book is a passionate and heavily researched account of the case against the cyber-utopians.

<p> Kirkus, June 1, 2011<br> Numerous books have covered endangered daily newspapers, but few relate the sad saga from the perspective of a top editor with investigative reporting experience... Given O'Shea's level of detail and candor, some journalism icons will almost surely lose respect within their field...A spirited, fascinating insider's account of a troubled realm. <p> New Statesman, January 7, 2011<br> This book is a passionate and heavily researched account of the case against the cyber-utopians. The Chicago Reader, Michael Miner, June 17, 2011<br> The insider's tale O'Shea tells is that of an epic business disaster, placed in the context of the whole industry driving itself off a cliff...I'm 50 pages in and riveted. I expect to stay that way The Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Sneed, June 19, 2011<br> Loaded with Tribune Tower mayhem and monkeyshines, bankruptcy testimony, sexual innuendo, triggered security alarms, and a hysterical Tribune terrace escapade involving

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James O'Shea, once managing editor of The Chicago Tribune and editor of the The Los Angeles Times, was most recently CEO and editor-in-chief of the Chicago News Cooperative. The author of two acclaimed books, O'Shea was a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School of Harvard in 2009.

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