How broadcast rights became the most valuable asset in professional sport
Live sport is one of the few things audiences still watch together and in real time. That makes the rights to show it unusually prized, and unusually hard to price.
Media and Marketing
How translated fiction finds its readers
A novel's journey into another language depends on a small chain of enthusiasts: scouts, translators, editors and booksellers willing to take a chance.
Inside the slow, careful world of fact-checking
Before a story is published, someone has to ask of every sentence: how do we know this? A look at a discipline readers rarely see.
How museums decide what to put on the wall — and what stays in storage
Most of a large museum's collection is never on display. Curators make constant choices about what to show, how to frame it and whose stories it tells.