Articles What to do when words fail you Sometimes the words just don’t work. I don’t mean they don’t come together easily or work well or string together in pretty rhythms. Those are annoyances we seldom get to… June 13, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski A reporter explores the laws and emotion involved in helping her father die Bloomberg investigative reporter Esmé Deprez researched a range of death-with-dignity issues after becoming her father's end-of-life partner June 8, 2022 Chip Scanlan When gun violence visits: Previous work to guide your stories After 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in a classroom in Uvalde, Texas, the chorus rose: “Enough!” It came with a sad refrain: “It will happen again.”And it… June 6, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski A writer’s tribute to Roger Angell: For the love of the reading journey "Sports Guy" author and politics blogger Charles P. Pierce with a reflection on legendary sportswriter and baseball fan Roger Angell June 3, 2022 Charles P. Pierce Eternal pain, intractable politics and public detachment How much difference does three days make?Too much, at least when it comes to our gnat-like attention span. Three days is the time it takes for the public to shift… May 31, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski A documentary film breaks rules and wins an Oscar EDITOR’S NOTE: All time codes in this post correspond to the YouTube version of “The Queen of Basketball.” It’s also available, with an introduction by filmmaker Ben Proudfoot, on The… May 27, 2022 Kristen Chin Lauren Hough goes on a hunt for Bonnie and Clyde and her Grandpa Chuck A celebrated memoirist returns to her native Texas on a quest to determine if her family stories were true May 25, 2022 Trevor Pyle Packing a punch in a few words If you want to see some creative short-form storytelling, you can skip right past Twitter and TikTok and head straight to the news. Newspapers, news sites, TV news — any… May 16, 2022 Jacqui Banaszynski Stories behind bars: The power and pitfalls of “emotional truths” Author Lauren Kessler finds echoes of her work in a prisoner profile by Boston Globe reporter Evan Allen that reveals the journalist's role in the story May 13, 2022 Lauren Kessler A “story-keeping” project helps people heal In 2001, hospice nurse Dottie Kluttz started practicing “story medicine.” She’d sit with patients nearing the end of their lives, turn on an audio recorder and ask them questions about… May 12, 2022 Betsy Taylor Previous 1 … 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 … 245 Next
