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A speechwriter, a couple of jazz geniuses and the 44th president of the United States.That would be an enticing dinner-party guest list. As it turns out, it’s also an intriguing…

The headlines coming out of last week’s public hearing of the Congressional Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol focused on the unanimous vote to…

Shootings are so common in the U.S. that victims are often reduced to 10-point type in news stories: A name and age, maybe alongside a loved ones’ baleful quote set…

A young journalist who escaped Afghanistan returns a year later, by reote, to report the reality for the women left behind

A 2021 public service announcement about bear encounters, included these one-liners;Do not immediately drop to the ground and “play dead.” Bears can sense overacting.⁣Do not run up and push the…

A PhD in literature argues that journalism, not "comp," is the most effective way to help college student learn to write

A group of journalists clustered along a table at a lovely restaurant in Bergen, Norway, late last month, chattering about our work and how good it was to be back…

New Yorker writer Anand Gopal worked through layers of sources to enter the veiled world of Afghan women under Taliban rule

Moni Basu was a news reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) when she was sent to Baghdad to write about a Georgia-based military unit. It was 2005. The 48th…

Story craft surrounds us, not just in journalism but in pretty much everything I can think of. Proof, I guess, that humans are hard-wired for story. It teaches, informs, entertains,…