Articles Punning the way to a point A note from a professional friend landed in my inbox a few days ago, with this quick header:“… the best lede I’ve ever read.”So I clicked. (Wouldn’t you?) It took… August 5, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski Yardscaping your way to a story A writer has a flagstone path built at her cabin, and watches the story process in action, one stone (word, paragraph, scene) at a time August 3, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski Do Not Erase! the magic that happens on deadline A fave recent story find: a tight little feature in the Boston Globe: ‘Please do not erase’: A treasured whiteboard at Boston’s Children Hospital has not been touched for 15… August 2, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski Bear essentials and beyond A few shares on bears and books, puppies and propaganda, football and failures of leadership July 28, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski Dan Barry, baseball and the love of the (writing) game If there is such a thing as the perfect summer read, this might be it.First, it’s about baseball. Even if you’re not seduced by the sport, the writing it has… July 27, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski How Rolling Stone revisited a mass tragedy to ‘humanize the horrendous’ After the Florida condo collapse, Matt Sullivan vowed not to forget a teen survivor. The year-later profile has credibility, empathy and a haunting ending July 26, 2022 Chip Scanlan Shaping a historic narrative: The Jan. 6 hearings as story craft The public hearings of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol draw on core narrative elements July 21, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski The Mayborn is back! In person and online A Storyboard standard was tracking and reporting on as many of the top annual journal conferences we could, from association events — like the Society of Environmental Journalists, Investigative Reporters… July 20, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski Francis X. Clines: The consummate newspaper journalist Every afternoon when I was a kid, the Green Bay (Wisconsin) Press Gazette landed in the driveway of our house. Actually, squinting back, I think it got tucked between the… July 19, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski Raise your glasses to four lessons all writers can learn by judging craft beer Maybe not 99, but at least a few dozen bottles of beer are along the wall. We take one down, pass it around, make sure the barcode on the bottle… July 15, 2022 Charles Scudder Previous 1 … 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 … 243 Next
