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Oct. 20, 2008, 9:11 a.m.

Evelyn, with a long E

I’m glad that, whatever else one thinks of Tina Brown or her Daily Beast, she’s created a boomlet of sales for Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop, the greatest of all journalism novels.

Joshua Benton is the senior writer and former director of Nieman Lab. You can reach him via email (joshua_benton@harvard.edu) or Twitter DM (@jbenton).
POSTED     Oct. 20, 2008, 9:11 a.m.
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