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Joe Kahn: ‘The newsroom is not a safe space’

· Ben Smith · last updated
Ben Smith: Dan Pfeiffer, who used to work for Barack Obama, recently wrote of the Times: “They do not see their job as saving democracy or stopping an authoritarian from taking power.
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