Articles A Thousand Words? This Stash is Worth a Trillion This is a story about an enormous collection of pictures. A man started the collection and marketed it as a service to graphic artists and others who needed visual inspiration.… November 18, 2004 Nell Lake Black Hawk Down We found the level of action detail in this gruesome series remarkable: Bowden traces what happened when—who got shot where, shrieked, said what, shot whom, with what—with striking clarity. We… November 18, 2004 Nell Lake Forest Haven Is Gone, But the Agony Remains This piece uses narrative to turn what could have been a distanced roster of wrongs into a more compelling, close story about individuals’ suffering. Vivid narrative makes good investigative work… November 18, 2004 Nell Lake Jon Franklin interviewed by Ole Soennichsen What is your advice on structuring a story while reporting?You report for structure the same way you report for anything else. When you’re reporting for dramatic narrative, you’re reporting for… November 18, 2004 Ole Soennichsen One Good Thing On Top of Another While covering a cookie-stacking contest, Pollak kept asking herself that ever-important question: What and where is the story? So instead of a cutesy, standard piece about a child winning a… November 17, 2004 Nell Lake Life’s Ups and Downs The scale stands at the entrance to the Publix in Hudson, Fla. It catches the attention of passersby; they weigh themselves and react. Through simple reporting—observing people weigh themselves and… November 17, 2004 Nell Lake A Queen Arrives, and Even in Jaded New York, Jaws Drop A harbor pilot steers a great ship through the Verrazano Narrows, the last task of his career. This piece is attentively and elegantly told. What we find most instructive is… November 17, 2004 Nell Lake In Her Mother’s Shoes This is the last line of the first installment of Bock’s series on AIDS in Africa: “For two days and two nights, while the men tend the fire outside, the… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake The Boy Behind the Mask Hallman spent hundreds of hours and more than 10 months reporting for this series, about a disfigured young boy in Oregon. He says he did very little reconstruction, that most… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Three Little Words In 1989 Jane Morse’s husband, Mick, tells her he has AIDS and, as Clark writes, Jane suddenly suspects that her long marriage has been a lie. A reader may at… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Previous 1 … 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 Next
