Author Esquire Classic: Mike Sager’s country includes old men Back in 1998, magazine writer Mike Sager was best known for his fearless profiles of drug dealers, crackheads, porn stars, and neo-Nazis. But that year Esquire handed him a very… April 6, 2016 Annotation Tuesday! Antonio Regalado and liquid biopsies In August 2014 Antonio Regalado introduced an almost heretical approach to cancer treatment to the wider world in a feature he wrote for MIT Technology Review. Regalado, the senior biomedicine… April 5, 2016 “Power of Narrative” Conference: How Shakespeare would go viral What does Shakespeare have to do with clickbait? How much in common did ancient indigenous peoples have with the Twitter community? Was Dante’s “Inferno” the original “explainer” story?Amy O’LearyThe surprising… April 4, 2016 Esquire Classic: Colum McCann, Bitcoin and the Winklevoss twins The last time most of us heard of the Winklevoss twins—hell, the first time we heard of them—was in David Fincher’s acerbic 2010 movie, The Social Network. You remember: Tyler… March 30, 2016 Journalism and Art: Complementary and Collaborative Storytelling As journalists use art to bring stories off the page, artists adopt reporting techniques to address social issues March 28, 2016 Esquire Classic: Elizabeth Kaye and great profile writing Esquire has long been fascinated by men in power—and by the frailties and anxieties that lie just beneath their polished facades. Beginning in the late eighties, contributing editor Elizabeth Kaye… March 23, 2016 Radio Diaries’ Joe Richman and “The Last Man on the Mountain” Joe RichmanJoe Richman practices narrative without narration. His production company, Radio Diaries, crafts public radio stories whose characters do all the talking. In the absence of a reporter’s voice, which… March 22, 2016 Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe on “The life and times of Strider Wolf” Sarah Schweitzer has spent almost two decades honing her narrative instincts at The Boston Globe and the St. Petersburg Times. In April 2015 she was acknowledged by the Pulitzer Prize… March 14, 2016 When journalists follow the money, it can lead to great stories The audacious claim by the government of Bangladesh that hackers spoofed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York into giving them tens of millions of Bangladesh’s dollars has us salivating… March 14, 2016 Why’s This So Bad? Confirmation Bias and Failed Narratives There’s a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s scathing journalism send-up “Scoop” where Wenlock Jakes, the world-beating American reporter (based on John Gunther of the old Chicago Daily News), is sent to the… March 11, 2016 Previous 1 … 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 … 240 Next
