Another is Mundy's fresh reporting and the reams of new social science research she summarizes to make her case.
Each new day brings fresh reporting about the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, as well as the determination by Trump to derail that investigation.
"The Crusades of Cesar Chavez" combines fresh reporting with spot-checking of Chavez's memories, as gathered by writers such as Levy, and the result helps flesh out Chavez as more than a transcendent moral hero.
The annual performance evaluation system now in place in the newsroom would have made it harder for Mr. Blair to escape a dismayed boss and land a fresh reporting assignment under an editor unaware of his shortcomings.
I wrote a few months ago about one such decision I strongly disagreed with: the elimination of the Green blog, which had served as a useful clearinghouse for good information, aggregation and fresh reporting about the environment.
Shrewdly, Elkind spices up his narrative with fresh reporting on the parallel rise of the pimps and prostitutes who would eventually set up Emperor's Club V.I.P., the high-end escort service that Spitzer turned to, according to Elkind, sometime early in 2006.
