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By Jacqui BanaszynskiDo anything often enough and long enough and you probably, at times, fall into the occasional rut. I don’t know of any fellow journalist, no matter their age…

Narrative Elements 1: A narrative nonfiction writer and teacher starts a series that explores narrative journalism element by element

By Dale KeigerIf you write for a living and stay with it long enough you will accumulate a bulging folder of journeyman’s work. You don’t renounce it and you don’t…

By Jacqui BanaszynskiThe video screens on the back of airplane seats are small and often smudged. But for many years, when I flew twice a week for work, that’s where…

—Peter Baker of The New York Times on the indictment of former President Donald J. Trump

By Katharine GammonRoy Peter Clark says he never meant to write another book about writing.Clark, a senior scholar at The Poynter Institute, had already written or edited 20 books about…

Miriam Leslie inherited a media empire from her husband, then reinvented it with journalism we take for granted today

By Jacqui BanaszynskiConsider the tease of the writer’s muse. We wait and wait and wait for her to show up, and get more anxious about her absence as deadline nears.…

By Caren CheslerEssayist and poet Hillery Stone lost her 4-year-old dog not long ago. A door was opened. The dog ran out. Several people who tried to steer the dog…

—New York Times chief political analyst Nate Cohn on the possibilities of indictments against Donald J. Trump