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How TMZ Claims Its Celebrity Scalps, Like Ray Rice

As its shocking Ray Rice footage shows, if there is a scandalous video to be exposed, or celebrity transgression or death to be reported, TMZ is usually there first. How do Harvey Levin and his team do it?

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Back in the last century, newspapers and magazines were thriving, “dead-tree journalism” wasn’t a widely-used term, and the broadcast networks and the record companies were the dominant purveyors of popular culture.

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