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Today, we look back at the history and identity of the Post with former Post columnists Juan Palomo and Tom Kennedy, and the paper's longtime book editor, Elizabeth Bennett.
Then, we talk with Michael Berryhill, Associate Professor and Chair of Journalism at Texas Southern University, and Garth Jowett, Professor of Communication at the University of Houston, about the two newspaper town dynamic Houston once had, and how fewer and fewer cities – even big ones – can sustain two major daily papers anymore. We then consider whether that's something to bemoan, or just accept, in a digital world where all media competes with one another on all platforms, 24/7, and more and more people cite social media like Twitter or other aggregators of content as their primary source of news.
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