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Michael Fitzgerald

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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 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
5 Questions with: Ben Montgomery on Michael Brick and "Everyone Leaves Behind a Name"

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…

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.…

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…

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…
Three points in favor of “literary journalism”

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…
Notable Narrative: Ken Armstrong, T. Christian Miller and "An Unbelievable Story of Rape"

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…
Annotation Tuesday! Emily Yoffe and "The College Rape Overcorrection"

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…
The 5 Most Read "Why's This So Good?" Essays

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…
Jake Silverstein: "Immersing you in worlds not your own"

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…