Articles The Weight of a Family’s Hopes Hull uses detail to full effect but also embeds comments in her narrative that advance her larger point. Notice this phrase in the lead paragraph of this third installment: Amy’s… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake The Terrorist Within This series was written by Hal Bernton, Mike Carter, David Heath and James Neff. It builds plot skillfully, progressing through a classic beginning, middle and end. It also offers what… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Getting In Gross’s series is an example of using profile to examine larger social contexts or processes, in this case the college-admissions game. The style is airy, the content more weighty, the… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Skye’s the Limit DeGregory chronicles the efforts of a 13-year-old devout Christian girl and her backstage mom to make the girl a pop star. DeGregory deftly writes for both believer and nonbeliever: Her… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Mrs. Kelly’s Monster Franklin leads his readers through the grisly, tense terrain of brain surgery, moment by moment. We experience the story as if it were live reporting: Franklin tells it in present… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake The Hurt Between the Lines In this final installment of the Times race series, a reporter turns her attention to another journalistic effort to address race in America. The Akron Beacon Journal won a Pulitzer… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Who Gets to Tell a Black Story? This piece is about the making of “The Corner,” a TV series about black drug addicts, told from their perspective. The script was based on a book by a white… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Which Man’s Army Holmes spent a year reporting this story about two drill sergeants—one black and one white—in a company at Fort Knox, Ky. The piece chronicles their jockeying for power, advancement and… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Lost in the Music Stabler’s series about a black music prodigy is well-reported and -written. We like the rich detail, the elegant descriptions, deft characterizations. What seems left out are more insights into why… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Two Jobs and a Sense of Hope In this final, sad chapter of the series, a West African immigrant, Adama Camara, scrubs toilets and wipes tables for 16 hours a day. The world is a grimy, dreary,… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Previous 1 … 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 Next
