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Video: how companies map their supply chains
Tracing every supplier behind a product is harder than it sounds. A visual guide to the process.
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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.
Analysis
How companies are redrawing their supply chains
Efficiency once trumped everything. Now businesses are paying for resilience — and discovering how hard it is to buy.
Culture
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.
Analysis
The economics of subscribing to everything
From software to cars, companies want recurring revenue. Customers are starting to count the cost.
Investigation
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.
Analysis
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.
Explainer
How to read a company's cash-flow statement — the account that is hardest to dress up
Profits are an accounting opinion; cash is a fact. The cash-flow statement shows where money really came from and where it went.
