Articles 23 Things I’ve Learned from (Not) Being a Columnist Lessons on column writing from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Schmich’s 23 years at the Chicago Tribune July 16, 2015 Mary Schmich Peter Slevin tackles the biography of First Lady Michelle Obama Editor’s Note: Anyone who writes about politics and politicians knows how difficult it is to bring fresh insight to familiar issues and personalities. That challenge is even greater if your… June 29, 2015 Peter Slevin Annotation Tuesday: Jeanne Marie Laskas and Guns ’R Us When Jeanne Marie Laskas set out to write about guns for GQ magazine in 2012, she knew it would be difficult but she didn’t expect it would become the story… June 9, 2015 Matt Tullis City, Regional Magazine Awards Announced If there’s anywhere that crime pays, it might be at this year’s National City and Regional Magazine Awards, where a majority of the winning stories, announced last night at the… June 2, 2015 Louise Kiernan Memorial Day Reading List It’s easy to forget, amid all the cookouts and trips to the beach, that Memorial Day was created to remember the men and women who have died in military service.… May 22, 2015 Louise Kiernan Annotation Live! The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos and Richard M. Daley If you’re read the most recent Storyboard feature for the Nieman Reports magazine — and, if you haven’t, here it is — you may know that narrative is increasingly taking to… May 15, 2015 Louise Kiernan Exploring the Rise of Live Journalism Walking tours, workshops, and other live events bring narrative reporting and writing from the page to the stage May 7, 2015 Rose Eveleth A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Diana Marcum Diana Marcum is the first to acknowledge that her path to a Pulitzer Prize may be an unexpected one.“My parents died when I was young. I didn’t get through college. I didn’t… April 30, 2015 Louise Kiernan Three Pulitzer Winners to Read Now The Pulitzer Prizes are revealed in one fell swoop, winners and finalists alike, 21 separate categories that cover everything from music to history to local news reporting. And many of… April 21, 2015 Louise Kiernan Ari Daniel: “It’s so important to show stories that have hopeful threads.” If you heard a story last week on NPR’s “Here and Now” about a new kind of nuclear reactor or perhaps remember a recent piece on PRI’s “The World” about… April 15, 2015 Previous 1 … 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 … 243 Next