Author Sage writing advice from the editor of Column One Steve Padilla of the Los Angeles Times urges writers to tune up their writing with song June 9, 2021 “I spent my career writing hard news. That’s me.” If you’re not a fan of “A River Runs Through It,” it can only be because you haven’t read it yet. Norman Maclean’s 1976 novella of family dynamics plays out… June 8, 2021 How a story originally reported for print was transformed for audio EDITOR’S NOTE: Read our conversation with Robyn Semien of This American Life and Ken Armstrong, formerly of The Marshall Project, on how those two organizations and ProPublica partnered to tell… June 3, 2021 A radio producer and print reporters partner on a narrative for multiple platforms EDITOR’S NOTE: Read an annotation of the prologue and first act of This American Life’s “Anatomy of Doubt.”CAUTION: The stories linked to and discussed in this package describe details of… June 2, 2021 How Memorial Day memories become today’s stories The Memorial Day weekend caught me by surprise. After 16 months of no travel, and a schedule dictated only by this weekly newsletter, I lost the daily rhythm of showing… May 31, 2021 #5 rule of pitching: Make it sparkle Don't lose an interesting idea in a boring pitch May 28, 2021 How lessons from past stories can inform future stories My morning NPR ritual recently brought back two major landmarks in my journalism career this past week. May 18 was both the 41st anniversary of the eruption of Mount St.… May 26, 2021 “…silence so dense it became its own sound.” If you have read the novels of Dennis Lehane (among them “Gone, Baby, Gone,” “Mystic River” and “Shutter Island,” all made into movies), you know that place is a powerful… May 25, 2021 Embedding with EMTs to write about the first line of COVID first responders Harried doctors and nurses, gowned in eerie layers, race to the call of codes. Hospital hallways overflow with the near-dead. Undertakers scramble to make space as body after body arrives,… May 21, 2021 Writing: Nine parts mechanic, one part muse I spent the early years of my journalism career struggling with pretty much everything about the job, but especially with the writing. The reporting was often uncomfortable as I pushed… May 20, 2021 Previous 1 … 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 … 245 Next
