Author Newsroom Ode #9: Echoes from an empty desk EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the ninth and penultimate in a series of Monday odes that chronicle the legacy newsroom. Each is written from a different first-person perspective. Together they create the… March 4, 2019 Raw first stories from the Appalachian Trail When I first discovered that Earl Shaffer — the first man acknowledged to have hiked the entire 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine — lived nearby, I went through… February 28, 2019 Building a museum with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up One day last October, Cara Solomon sat alone in an empty field in Alabama, the unmarked site of a lynching. She wasn’t carrying a reporter’s notebook or thinking yet about… February 26, 2019 Newsroom Ode #8: Podium pontifications EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the eighth in a series of Monday odes that chronicle the legacy newsroom. Each is written from a different first-person perspective. Together they create the mumbled narrative… February 25, 2019 Can a soundtrack ease you through a story? A veteran journalist tuned into music to turn on her writing February 21, 2019 “I’m thinking longer term, in geologic time, doing just what I can each day and not putting it off because it won’t be brilliant.” —From Amy Liptrot, in her memoir "The Outrun" February 20, 2019 What the “Insect Apocalypse” reveals about faulty human memory Brooke Jarvis takes windshield wipers to environmental blindness February 19, 2019 Newsroom Ode #7: Desperation calls the consultant EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the seventh in a series of Monday odes that chronicle the legacy newsroom. Each is written from different first-person perspective. Together they create the mumbled narrative of… February 18, 2019 Forget the chocolates. Tell a story instead I‘m not much on Valentine’s Day. I liked the grade school tradition of exchanging Valentine’s Day cards with classmates. (Is that just a U.S. thing?) Each of us was supposed… February 14, 2019 “I work like a watchmaker or an old-fashioned silversmith: one eye screwed up… ” —From the memoir "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz February 13, 2019 Previous 1 … 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 … 240 Next
