Articles Pitching a new editor: Don’t be too clever I was re-reading an old essay of mine that I’d sent out nine times but could never sell. As I finished it, I thought, “Damn, I like this essay. Why… October 1, 2020 Caren Chesler How a viral tweet led to a sensitive story on family, race and America It was the kind of tweet a lot of people would thumb past with no more than a quick “like.” But when Jaweed Kaleem read about a one-woman Black Lives… September 30, 2020 Trevor Pyle Narrative of Oregon town’s hellish wildfire experience is a lesson in deadline writing This past Labor Day, three reporters in Salem, Oregon were enjoying the holiday weekend. They’d done a good job preparing stories in advance so they wouldn’t have to scramble the… September 29, 2020 Kim Cross #1 rule of pitching: Study the publication Editor’s Note: This is the first in an occasional series of posts that elaborate on some of the most basic weaknesses in story pitching. You can find other resources about… September 25, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski Wisdom from Melissa Fay Greene about deep reporting on sensitive subjects If the first rule of nonfiction is “write what you know,” then Melissa Fay Greene has embraced this principle like few others.She has spent her career chronicling the interior lives… September 23, 2020 Bonnie Miller Rubin How Reveal investigated the systemic abuse of America’s caregivers Reporters are always hunting for timely news pegs to resurface evergreen stories. More than a year after Jennifer Gollan’s arresting investigation into labor abuses against caregivers, coronavirus has offered a… September 22, 2020 Carly Stern How limitations — COVID, budgets, access and more — can spark fresh ideas When the quarantine began in March, the lifestyles production unit at GBH Studio Six in Boston — which is responsible for a range of programming content, from cooking and travel… September 17, 2020 Kristen Chin “They told me their stories, gave them to me for keeping, which I did, always listening, always remembering.” Hiram Walker is a motherless young slave in Virginia, fathered by the lord of a plantation that is clinging to shreds of grace even as the land plays out from… September 15, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski What challenged Andrea Pitzer to write what she calls her best work ever When she set out from Russian port of Murmansk on a 60-foot sailboat headed to Novaya Zemlya in August 2019, journalist Andrea Pitzer had few expectations. She hoped to visit… September 10, 2020 Cheryl Katz Introducing “The Pivot,” in which journalists find their way through industry chaos The Pivot: A brief preludeOn an early afternoon in early March in Upper Manhattan, a dozen graduate students in Columbia Journalism School’s Arts and Culture seminar gathered their notebooks and… September 9, 2020 Julia Shipley Previous 1 … 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 … 246 Next
