Articles 7 Fatal Flaws of Story Pitches How to identify common mistakes that get in the way of landing that big idea September 3, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski Economic Hardship Reporting Project seeks story pitches that personalize poverty The Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) was born from a situation of precisely that: financial insecurity. Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the seminal 1996 work, “Nickel and Dimed,” co-founded the journalism… September 2, 2020 Carly Stern How reporting through time and place reveals character With transportation stymied by a pandemic, Wright Thompson couldn’t exactly hop on a plane to research a story on Michael Jordan. Instead, the ESPN senior reporter built a time machine,… August 28, 2020 Trevor Pyle One cold case murder. Two narrative forms. On Oct. 9, 1983, the body of Timothy Wayne Coggins, a 23-year-old Black man, was found in the woods off a power line easement in Griffin, Georgia. He had been… August 26, 2020 Chip Scanlan The power of a pronoun It would be folly to follow the thousands (millions?) of sentences that have been written since Tuesday (Aug. 11, 2020), when presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced that U.S.… August 25, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski How a high school journalist geared up to cover protests in Portland, Oregon As federal law enforcement officers descended on Portland, Oregon, last month and clashed with protesters demanding an end to police brutality, Eddy Binford-Ross — who lives in Salem, about 45… August 20, 2020 Lisa Grace Lednicer Rewriting the “hero’s journey” to fit a feminine narrative A writer on a hunt to understand classic story structure ponders politics, movies and her grandmother's life, and searches for a journey of their own August 19, 2020 Madeline Bodin Two veteran newswomen learn podcasting to retell the story of women’s suffrage Today marks the centennial of the 19th amendment, which says “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or… August 18, 2020 Katherine Lanpher Bearing witness inside a funeral home at the pitch of the COVID pandemic Josh Sanburn went deep into a place of death — and found a story that teems with life.In “The Last of the First Responders,” published in June in Vanity Fair, … August 14, 2020 Trevor Pyle Writing rituals: Superstition or productivity? I’d heard the story many times before, but I still couldn’t believe it:Gay Talese pinned his manuscript pages to the wall of his office. He then walked across the room to… August 12, 2020 Chip Scanlan Previous 1 … 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 … 246 Next
