Author Forest Haven Is Gone, But the Agony Remains This piece uses narrative to turn what could have been a distanced roster of wrongs into a more compelling, close story about individuals’ suffering. Vivid narrative makes good investigative work… November 18, 2004 Jon Franklin interviewed by Ole Soennichsen What is your advice on structuring a story while reporting?You report for structure the same way you report for anything else. When you’re reporting for dramatic narrative, you’re reporting for… November 18, 2004 One Good Thing On Top of Another While covering a cookie-stacking contest, Pollak kept asking herself that ever-important question: What and where is the story? So instead of a cutesy, standard piece about a child winning a… November 17, 2004 Life’s Ups and Downs The scale stands at the entrance to the Publix in Hudson, Fla. It catches the attention of passersby; they weigh themselves and react. Through simple reporting—observing people weigh themselves and… November 17, 2004 A Queen Arrives, and Even in Jaded New York, Jaws Drop A harbor pilot steers a great ship through the Verrazano Narrows, the last task of his career. This piece is attentively and elegantly told. What we find most instructive is… November 17, 2004 In Her Mother’s Shoes This is the last line of the first installment of Bock’s series on AIDS in Africa: “For two days and two nights, while the men tend the fire outside, the… November 16, 2004 The Boy Behind the Mask Hallman spent hundreds of hours and more than 10 months reporting for this series, about a disfigured young boy in Oregon. He says he did very little reconstruction, that most… November 16, 2004 Three Little Words In 1989 Jane Morse’s husband, Mick, tells her he has AIDS and, as Clark writes, Jane suddenly suspects that her long marriage has been a lie. A reader may at… November 16, 2004 The Weight of a Family’s Hopes Hull uses detail to full effect but also embeds comments in her narrative that advance her larger point. Notice this phrase in the lead paragraph of this third installment: Amy’s… November 16, 2004 The Terrorist Within This series was written by Hal Bernton, Mike Carter, David Heath and James Neff. It builds plot skillfully, progressing through a classic beginning, middle and end. It also offers what… November 16, 2004 Previous 1 … 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 Next
