5 Questions

When gun violence visits, a pastor finds faith and a reporter finds those not noticed

A veteran of multiple mass shootings, David Montero of the Los Angeles Times rejects easy narratives to explore reality on deadline

By Chip Scanlan • September 18, 2019

Pastor Michael Grady of El Paso, Texas, whose daughter, Michelle, was seriously wounded in an Aug. 3 mass shooting at a local Walmart

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Annotation Tuesday!

When gun violence visits, a workaday mayor — and hard-working journalist — respond

The New Yorker's Paige Williams rejects the limits of "parachute" journalism to deliver immersion reporting on deadline

By Chip Scanlan • September 18, 2019

Story Craft

If it was good enough for Jane Austen …

A reluctant reconsideration of "they" as a singular pronoun, with a short plea for pronoun clarity

By Jacqui Banaszynski • September 13, 2019

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Notable Narratives

Will this date ever fade?

By Jacqui Banaszynski
September 11, 2019

Remembering the day, and the stories we wish never had to be written

Annotation Tuesday!

Exposing what the police and courts wouldn’t — and what society owes in return

By Chip Scanlan
September 10, 2019

Haunted by youthful memories of claims of rape, a opinion writer goes home to seek the truth and expose the moral “rot” of shaming the victim

5 Questions

A bag of ashes, a research-loving reporter, the public library, and a three-hour hunt

By Trevor Pyle
September 6, 2019

Shop Class: A newspaper reporter accepts a two-word challenge, and finds a veteran's survivors after police give up

Narrative News

A new “true story” award honors longform nonfiction from around the world

By Jacqui Banaszynski
September 6, 2019

Top winners from Russia, U.S., China; a foundation created by independent Swiss journalists seeks to "broaden the predominantly Western view"

Narrative News

Revisiting the “Ghost Ship” fire

By Jacqui Banaszynski
September 6, 2019

Verdicts in the case of a deadly fire at an artists' warehouse provide no clear answers, but prompt another look at an annotated profile of the accused

5 Questions

A self-made freelance career (with a little help along the way)

By Allison Kirkland
August 29, 2019

Barry Yeoman talks about a life of learning to report, write, listen, and keep up

Annotation Tuesday!

Chasing ghosts that will forever haunt

By Chip Scanlan
August 27, 2019

"Ghosts of Highway 20:" Through serendipity, creativity and care, a newspaper in Oregon finds answers 40 years after police and courts failed

Story Craft

Shop class: Stuck before you start? Eat a cookie, take a walk, set it out for the elves

By Laurie Hertzel
August 28, 2019

Advice to a blocked writer from others who have suffered the same

5 Questions

Reclaiming history with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up

By Kim Cross
August 23, 2019

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Alabama's memorial to slavery was conceived through the eyes of slavery's descendants

From Nieman Reports

From the caress of love to the fists of fear

By Ricki Morell
August 23, 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: This week, Nieman Reports magazine takes an unflinching look at domestic violence, and at the challenges and imperative of covering for what it is: not a “crime of passion” but a global social crisis. The magazine explores how the issue is being covered in… Read More

Story Craft

Lessons from a relentless “Reporter”

By Don Nelson
August 16, 2019

Gleaning fundamental wisdom from the dogged work of Seymour Hersh

Why's This So Good?

Romancing the moon in the reality of time

By Trevor Pyle
August 15, 2019

Esquire politics blogger Charles P. Pierce shines light on the "historical transcendence" of the moon landing by framing it in a darker context

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