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Effective editing: “I’m in service of you, the writer”

Effective editing: “I’m in service of you, the writer”

Author Glenn Stout has built a following as a freelance editor, giving writers confidence, solutions and sometimes channeling their voice
A profile of a newspaper press becomes a requiem for an era

A profile of a newspaper press becomes a requiem for an era

Los Angeles Times veteran Thomas Curwen found professionalism and pride in the last Friday night run of the newspaper's storied presses
Effective editing: Get on the phone to talk through ideas and problems

Effective editing: Get on the phone to talk through ideas and problems

After a decade of editing, The Atlantic's Family Editor Julie Beck is going to apply her experience to full-time writing of her own stories
Finding a quiet voice in the center of America’s screaming immigration debate

Finding a quiet voice in the center of America’s screaming immigration debate

The Washington Post's Ruby Cramer profiled a small-city selectman caught in the crossfire of fear, anger and blame over asylum seekers
Upcoming 2024 Narrative Nonfiction Prizes

Upcoming 2024 Narrative Nonfiction Prizes

As deadlines approach for the True Story Award and National Magazine Awards, journalists worldwide have opportunities to gain recognition for outstanding reporting and storytelling
13 ways to consider an interview

13 ways to consider an interview

A magazine writer and editor shares real-life lessons from 50 years of interviewing: It's not a conversation and you are not a supplicant
Pygmy nuthatches, fountain pens, yellowed clips and time ahead

Pygmy nuthatches, fountain pens, yellowed clips and time ahead

The editor muses on the unknowable 'what's next' for her writing and teaching as she hands the Storyboard baton forward
A new freelance business works like a "dating app for fact-checking"

A new freelance business works like a “dating app for fact-checking”

Journalist and entrepreneur Wudan Yan launches "Factual" to match writers and publications with freelance fact-checkers to ensure accuracy
Daring to bring humor and wonder to serious subjects

Daring to bring humor and wonder to serious subjects

Tom Whipple of the Times of London celebrates the return of beavers to urban England with a "jam sandwich" structure and an inviting voice
Writing to find out what you want to write

Writing to find out what you want to write

The editor muses on the painful reality of drafting and deleting, and reminds you to consider applying to be next in the Storyboard chair