We reported last week on the American expansion of the bikini-loving online wing of British newspaper The Daily Mail. The Guardian is also expanding its online presence here, but under rather different circumstances – and for the second time. Does anybody remember Guardian America? Yeah, that’s because it didn’t go so well. We Read More
To hear Martin Clarke tell it, The Daily Mail accrued its online readership in America nearly by accident. Lining a landing page with paparazzi shots headlined with expressions of awe and outrage, making the bikini a newsworthy event—that was not transatlantic outreach, just British custom. “Originally we focused ruthlessly on our British audience because that Read More
Waterborne , by Bruce Murkoff. Alfred A. Knopf, 416 pages, $25.
Dam-building is a dramatic business. It demands explosives, ingenuity and legions of men. The Hoover Dam at Boulder was the largest engineering project of its age, built at the very nadir of the Great Depression. From 1931 to 1936, it provided employment for Read More
