Author Charles Pierce on the lost decade In the universe of Charles Pierce, the decade just discarded was not a keeper. It’s hard to argue otherwise, but in the hands of the unerringly unsettling Pierce, the litany… January 6, 2010 Errol Morris in The New York Times on still photography and context So much depends upon a stuffed Mickey Mouse lying in the debris of a bombed-out building. In a weekend post on The New York Times site, Opinionator Errol Morris takes… January 4, 2010 In defense of ignorance: Rob Nixon at the MLA on making room for readers Can less be more? The value of ignorance came up this week at the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia during a session titled “Literature and Journalism.” Rob Nixon, of… December 31, 2009 Picturing community: an interview with Los Angeles Times’ photographer Francine Orr Photographer Francine Orr had experience reporting on poverty and humanitarian crises around the globe. But while working on “Gimme Shelter,” an audio slide show about L.A.-area homeless people living under… December 29, 2009 Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 2) Storyboard recently talked about visual storytelling and intimacy with two very different journalists: an independent 30-year veteran and a newsroom staff photographer just two years out of graduate school.Yesterday, we… December 23, 2009 Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 1) Storyboard recently talked about visual storytelling and intimacy with two very different journalists: an independent 30-year veteran and a newsroom staff photographer just two years out of graduate school. Tomorrow,… December 22, 2009 Adrienne Mayor on putting the story in history Adrienne Mayor was a 2009 National Book Award finalist for her nonfiction book The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy. Mayor, a visiting scholar at… December 19, 2009 Targeting the Good Cell Here’s a narrative challenge: recount a quarter-century of lab experiments conducted by several investigative teams working separately from Kyoto to California. Now make the story urgent and give it a sense… December 18, 2009 Statistics as story: narrative journalism by the numbers? Earlier this year, at the first TED conference in India, Hans Rosling predicted the year and month that India and China will overtake the West and return Asia to world… December 15, 2009 Mother Jones’ Dave Gilson: There’s a riot goin’ on Dave GilsonA scene from the opening of a prime-time cable series? Nope—it's the lead from a story in last month’s Mother Jones. Dave Gilson’s piece narrates a mock riot in… December 14, 2009 Previous 1 … 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 … 240 Next
