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"When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely."

“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
A displaced writer picks up a camera — and falls back in love with learning

A displaced writer picks up a camera — and falls back in love with learning

We’re all reinventing ourselves in this suddenly sideways world. So here’s my reinvention story, and the theme that goes with it: Do it for love.The micro of what I did…
May 19, 2020
Roy Wenzl
Journalism lives at the check-out counter

Journalism lives at the check-out counter

The job I moved back to New Hampshire for was not Shift Supervisor at the local branch of a national drug store chain. Back in February, I folded up five…
May 15, 2020
Hilary Niles
"Execution is as important as vision."

“Execution is as important as vision.”

When I came across this line, it was in a recent interview between Esquire politics blogger Charles P. Pierce and U.S. Senator Angus King, an Independent from Maine who caucuses…
May 13, 2020
Jacqui Banaszynski
A poet's distanced farewell to his students is an anthem for the times

A poet’s distanced farewell to his students is an anthem for the times

EDITOR’S NOTE: Gerald P. Costanzo moved his poetry class online March 10 because of coronavirus. As the semester ended, he wanted to leave his students with “something more substantial than…
May 12, 2020
Gerald P. Costanzo
The path to excellence: Hard thinking, constant worry and "lunch-pail labor"

The path to excellence: Hard thinking, constant worry and “lunch-pail labor”

EDITOR’S NOTE: Storyboard can’t, alas, run tributes to every fine and influential journalist or journalism educator who dies. But some tributes do more than honor an individual at his passing…
May 7, 2020
Walt Harrington
Triple profile: A mountain town, a beloved newspaper, and an unlikely hero

Triple profile: A mountain town, a beloved newspaper, and an unlikely hero

EDITOR’S NOTE: After reading this engaging interview with Tim Arango of the New York Times, about how he found and reported the profile of The Mountain Messenger hero, we wanted…
May 6, 2020
Chip Scanlan
A "nut case" buys a mountain town newspaper to save it

A “nut case” buys a mountain town newspaper to save it

EDITOR’S NOTE: The New York Times found the story of the savior of The Mountain Messenger worth exploring. Read our Q&A with veteran foreign correspondent Tim Arango, who says a…
May 6, 2020
Jacqui Banaszynski
Congratulations to the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners

Congratulations to the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners

There are awards upon awards in journalism. But since its launch in 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes have set the gold standard for newspaper reporting, writing, commentary, photography and more. The…
May 4, 2020
Jacqui Banaszynski
"How was it I had let all wonder, all curiosity, seep from me?"

“How was it I had let all wonder, all curiosity, seep from me?”

Esi EdugyanA little more than half-way through Esi Edugyan’s fine novel, we are with her protagonist at a rude boarding house in Nova Scotia. It is 1834, and Washington Black…
May 1, 2020
Jacqui Banaszynski