One of Barbara Ehrenreich's books made the list. (Image by David Shankbone.)

The faculty at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute have published their list of the ten best pieces of journalism of the decade. Below is a bare-bones list; click here to find out more about each of them.

• “A Nation Challenged” (The New York Times, 2001.)
• Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, 2003.)
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Lawrence Wright, 2006.)
• “The Giant Pool of Money” (This American Life & NPR, 2008.)
• Ongoing reports from Iraq and Afghanistan (The New York Times, 2003-2009.)
• The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (Jane Mayer, 2008.)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.)
• Coverage of Hurricane Katrina (The Times-Picayune, 2005.)
• “Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration at Army’s Top Medical Facility” (The Washington Post, 2007.)
• “Abuse in the Catholic Church” (The Boston Globe, 2002.)