Author Michael Fitzgerald @riparian Michael Fitzgerald is a 2011 Nieman Fellow who writes about innovation for The Boston Globe, The Economist, Fast Company, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. The Pulitzer at 100: Taro Yamasaki and life inside Jackson State Prison The photojournalist talks about how he got unprecedented access — and images — inside the world's largest walled prison August 30, 2016 5 Questions with: Ben Montgomery on Michael Brick and “Everyone Leaves Behind a Name” Perhaps as much as any modern journalist, Michael Brick brought the style of Ben Hecht’s “A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago” into the 21st century newsroom. Hecht made the… May 10, 2016 The 2016 Pulitzers: A Storytelling Treasure Trove Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker has pulled off a rare double, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing after having earlier won the National Magazine Award in the same category.… April 18, 2016 When journalists follow the money, it can lead to great stories The audacious claim by the government of Bangladesh that hackers spoofed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York into giving them tens of millions of Bangladesh’s dollars has us salivating… March 14, 2016 Why’s This So Bad? Confirmation Bias and Failed Narratives There’s a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s scathing journalism send-up “Scoop” where Wenlock Jakes, the world-beating American reporter (based on John Gunther of the old Chicago Daily News), is sent to the… March 11, 2016 Three points in favor of “literary journalism” Josh RoilandNobody’s really happy with the term “literary journalism.” But we need to learn to love it, says Josh Roiland, assistant professor of communication and journalism at the University of… March 3, 2016 Notable Narrative: Ken Armstrong, T. Christian Miller and “An Unbelievable Story of Rape” Two reporters working for different organizations combined to create a better story January 26, 2016 Annotation Tuesday! Emily Yoffe and “The College Rape Overcorrection” How to spark strong emotions in a story with lots of numbers and no central character January 26, 2016 The 5 Most Read “Why’s This So Good?” Essays We just posted our 100th “Why’s This So Good?,” Abeer Najjar’s look at the Susan Dominus story in the New York Times Magazine, “Hana.” Nearly twice a month since June… January 20, 2016 Jake Silverstein: “Immersing you in worlds not your own” New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein on telling stories with virtual reality January 19, 2016 1 2 Next