Articles #4 rule of pitching: Know what’s come before Question to a successful writer (newspapers, magazines, book) who now does contract editing for top mastheads: What are your expectations for a clips search when a writer pitches a story?Answer:… January 20, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski When writing news requires a distance from neutrality to “tell it like it is” Writing guru Roy Peter Clark analyzes an "astonishing lead," and unpacks the notions of objectivity and detachment in light of current events January 14, 2021 Roy Peter Clark A reporter’s search for “lost history” becomes a best-selling book Worthy books are released almost every day. No doubt more than a few authors bemoaned the publication of their hard work this past year, when so much of the world’s… January 13, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Fifty years of Robert Caro’s reporting notes going public Oh, to study those yellowed pages, with words pecked by a typewriter, then crossed out and scribbled over and typed on more pages. To marvel at those scrapbooks — more… January 12, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Why journalists rise up in the face of fear The email that pinged my inbox Wednesday, as an assault on the U.S. Capitol was at its most intense, was quick and blunt:“Aren’t you glad you’re not out there?”I responded… January 11, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Reconstructing the tragedy of COVID from the epicenter of New York City’s outbreak One of the most heartbreaking realities of the coronavirus pandemic is particularly harsh: Patients usually die alone, separated from their loved ones with only a cellphone or iPad to say… January 7, 2021 Chip Scanlan Thrilling journalism in face of a terrible year A version of this essay was published as the Storyboard newsletter on Jan. 1, 2020 A flip of a calendar page and, just like that, 2020 is over. Of course, it… January 5, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Passports to authentic reporting: a foreign view, and a view through empathy At the end of this, a year that defies easy summary, we abandon attempts to try. Instead, here are two bits of lagniappe that came our way and we pass… December 31, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski “The mountains on the horizon …” Cal Hooper is a Chicago cop who was ditched by his wife, estranged from his daughter, haunted by past cases and addicted to the action. Somewhere along the way, the… December 29, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski A very few of my favorite fiction reads of 2020 I started with the notion of trying to wade through the weeds of this past year and list the things that kept me in astonishment as a reader, writer, editor… December 24, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski Previous 1 … 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 … 246 Next
