Author Pitching ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network: Focus on sources and impact "Why does this story need to be told here, in this community? And why does this story need to be told now?" says ProPublica’s managing editor for local August 17, 2021 What the “Insect Apocalypse” reveals about faulty human memory From the archives: Brooke Jarvis takes windshield wipers to environmental blindness and reveals why we should heed the bugs August 12, 2021 A conversation with Nathaniel Rich on “Losing Earth,” human inertia and storytelling as “a moral act” From the archives: The New York Times Magazine devotes an entire issue to history's failure to heed the siren warnings about climate change August 11, 2021 Collected reflections on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” Today is the 76th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. That’s not a notable number in the rather arbitrary realm of anniversary stories. But the event itself just seems to… August 6, 2021 Tools from fiction build a sophisticated National Magazine Award feature finalist Tamara Dean thinks a lot about the elements of story, whether she is writing for magazines such as The Progressive; essays for Orion or Creative Nonfiction; or a fictional short… August 5, 2021 “…no one feels the entry wound …” “The White Lotus” scorches like burning sand on bare feet. A satire about wealthy white tourists in Hawaii and a mysterious death that springs from their visit, the HBO series… August 4, 2021 How a writer’s kaleidoscopic mind learned to still the distractions with haiku I learned much of what I value about writing from a man who lost his voice. A slender, black-eyed Panamanian, José Quintero was a legend in the American theater and… July 29, 2021 Foreign reporting: Peter Hessler on seeing China through a personal lens Peter Hessler’s books about China have resonated with both Western and Chinese audiences, an accomplishment that seems unlikely today, when the “China story” has become a political and diplomatic battleground.Hessler… July 28, 2021 The role of editor as story director The director wasn’t satisfied.“Do it again,” she said, after we finished the scene.We did.“Do it again.”We did.“Do it again.”And so on, until we got it right. Or close enough.It was… July 16, 2021 “… and the cold came biting …” Some years ago, I spent three weeks at a mountain-climbing base camp in the interior of Antarctica. The reporting trip was supposed to be a two-day in-and-out, but a dispute… July 15, 2021 Previous 1 … 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 … 245 Next
