Articles The route to a Pulitzer in opinion writing: rigorous reporting A newcomer to a tiny newspaper in rural Texas brings fresh eyes, big-city experience, a drummer's rhythm, and some "swagger" to his editorials June 24, 2020 Madeline Bodin The challenge of precision: As descriptors evolve, the press must be clear The U.S. Supreme Court this week (June 17, 2020) ruled that the Civil Rights act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, which the majority said… June 18, 2020 Patrick Garvin “Words are living things. They have personality, point of view, agenda.” —Mads Mikkelsen as TV character Hannibal Lecter June 16, 2020 Trevor Pyle “They were tired, so tired and still they returned.” —Washington Post staff 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.” —Dr. Jesse Charles, from his time volunteering at Brooklyn Hospital Center during coronavirus May 29, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski Previous 1 … 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 … 245 Next
