Articles “They were tired, so tired and still they returned.” It’s not possible for the everyday reader to know who wrote that sentence. The lead writer who was pulling feeds from several reporters in the field? One of the field… June 11, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski The challenge of writing a life in two lines On May 23, 2020, (May 24 in print), the New York Times landed a daring and historic front page: A wash of overwhelming gray, which jumped to two more gray… June 10, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski A confluence of hard news that demands uncomfortable considerations All news is the stuff of history. But some deserves more than a dusty archive to be stumbled upon by a research scholar. It is an immediate marker that demands… June 9, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski How F. Scott Fitzgerald guided the hand and aspirations of a newspaper journalist Early in my career, while working in Minnesota as a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, I fell in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald, the city’s most famous native… June 4, 2020 Lisa Grace Lednicer Reading (Stephen King) to learn to write Now for something fun and funky, or at least distracting, but these days I’m sure we could all use fun and funky, or at least distracting. A starter’s guide to… June 3, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski A day-in-the-life profile of a grocery store during the coronavirus shutdown With a cell phone, an eye for evocative detail and 50 pages of notes, Brittny Mejia of the Los Angeles Times turned a day at a grocery store into a… June 2, 2020 Trevor Pyle “… the only true medicine I could provide.” They are no longer novel, these personal stories the front lines of the coronavirus. Reporters are barred from the kind of immersion that allows eye-witness accounts from that expanding front.… May 29, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski The news joins the rituals of mourning EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is published in partnership with our friends at the Poynter InstituteI was half-way through an essay on how the experience of news — especially in the… May 28, 2020 Roy Peter Clark Reverse engineering your story or project A friend reached out this past week, asking if I would chat with a friend of his. The second friend — I’ll call her J — runs a non-profit news… May 26, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski “When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.” My wife, Karen, and I happen to have for more than a decade a good Catholic pastor, Msgr. Robert Gibbons. Among his many gifts, he is a news junkie and… May 20, 2020 Roy Peter Clark Previous 1 … 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 … 246 Next
