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” Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller found themselves in the odd position of moving from competitors to collaborators, over the course of a phone call or two and a few… January 26, 2016 Annotation Tuesday! Emily Yoffe and “The College Rape Overcorrection” Emily YoffeWhen Emily Yoffe started looking into the issue of young men being expelled from colleges over alleged sexual assaults, she had in mind writing a “cheeky” 2,500-word story telling them what… 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” Jake Silverstein started editing the New York Times Magazine in May 2014, after six years editing Texas Monthly. During Silverstein’s tenure as editor, then editor-in-chief at Texas Monthly,the magazine was a… January 19, 2016 1 2 Next