Articles A Quiet Crusade Shane links infant mortality in Nepal to the U.S.’s own history. He takes a muscular approach to the topic by pointing out the paradox inherent in public health: treating people… July 28, 2004 Nell Lake A New Journalist's Suggestions for Daily Journalists Editor’s Note: This is an edited transcript of comments made by Gay Talese at the Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 1, 2001. It… April 1, 2002 Gay Talese Tips for Reporters Note: The following is an edited transcript of a talk by Jim Collins at the 2001 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. It was published in the Spring 2002 issue of… March 1, 2002 Jim Collins Narrative Journalism Comes of Age Editor’s Note: This essay originally appeared in the Fall 2000 issue of Nieman Reports, the Nieman Foundation’s quarterly magazine. Narrative writing is returning to newspapers. No one has added up… October 1, 2001 Mark Kramer Embed test Twitter YouTube SoundCloud Spotify… January 15, 1999 The Comedy of Life The doctor at the Army base had a young corporal as his assistant to keep track of the paperwork. The young man was curious about the doctor’s affairs. He was… January 1, 1999 Jack Hart Building Character in Three Dimensions We’ve heard it to the point of numbness: “Get people into your stories. Tell it in human terms.”Who’s to argue? Yup, human beings are more interesting than paper creeping through… January 1, 1998 Jack Hart Building Character: What the Fiction Writers Say Think of the great characters from fiction. Gustave Flaubert’s romantic and unfocused Emma Bovary. Mark Twain’s spunky Huck Finn. Larry McMurtry’s lusty Gus McCrae. Margaret Mitchell’s willful Scarlett O’Hara.Each is… January 1, 1998 Jack Hart A Writer’s Essay: Seeking the Extraordinary in the Ordinary This essay is based on presentations given in advanced feature writing seminars the author taught at The Washington Post. On Thinking About Intimate Journalism It’s the kiss of death for anyone aspiring… March 28, 1997 Walt Harrington The Art of the Short Story “It wasn’t by accident,” wrote Hemingway, “that the Gettysburg Address was short.” His 1932 letter to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, went on to lament every writer’s tendency to write too… January 1, 1997 Jack Hart Previous 1 … 243 244 245 246 247 Next
