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Story Craft

A podcast focused on diversity practices what it preaches

By Kristen Chin
July 1, 2022

"Immigrantly" podcast creator and host works with a team of writers who will challenge her — and she them — as they prepare questions for guests

Story Craft

2022 Power of Narrative: The matrix of editor, reporter and story

By Brian Foisy
May 5, 2022

How a longtime contributor and a top editor at The New York Times Magazine work together to create award-winning journalism

Story Craft

2022 Power of Narrative: Expert advice on covering drug addiction

By Samuel Thomas
April 28, 2022

Veteran social issues reporters Beth Macy and Martha Bebinger balance clear-eyed reporting with sensitive interviewing

Story Craft

2022 Power of Narrative: Debbie Cenziper on the reporting-writing partnership

By Andre Salkin
April 26, 2022

The author and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter gave her investigative pieces a human face and supported her writing with fair, factual reporting

Story Craft

2022 Power of Narrative: Lizzie Johnson on questions that shape deadline narratives

By Eleanor Dash
April 21, 2022

As the wildfire reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Johnson looked beyond events to people and place for award-winning work

Story Craft

2022 Power of Narrative: Ellen Barry on inserting yourself into the story

By Joyce Doherty
April 20, 2022

Editor’s note: This is the first of five posts from the 2022 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. For other takeaways, read Lizzie Johnson on deadline narrative and Debbie Cenziper on investigative narratives. New York Times reporter Ellen Barry built… Read More

Story Craft

A key to clear, accessible writing: Familiar analogies to describe the complex

By Jacqui Banaszynski
April 8, 2022

Novelist David Guterson uses common comparisons to calculate the likelihood of a major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest

Story Craft

So you want to write a book? Part 2: Agents, queries and timelines

By Bryan Denson
February 23, 2022

Newspaperman-turned-author Bryan Denson shares how he organizes his notes and timelines for books

Story Craft

So you want to write a book? Part 1: Have a strong story and resilient ego

By Bryan Denson
February 22, 2022

Newspaper reporter Bryan Denson outlines how he went from rejection to multiple book contracts

Story Craft

Sticking a story together — and nailing the structure

By Line Vaaben
February 2, 2022

A top Danish journalist uses a one-word theme and color-coded Post-its to find the path through her stories

Story Craft

An editor’s sensitive guide to interviewing victims of trauma

By Jan Winburn
January 20, 2022

Narrative editor Jan Winburn created a class at the University of Montana focused on "The Worst Day Ever: Writing about Trauma"

Story Craft

Reconstructing 72 hours of life and death under the “heat dome”

By Stuart Tomlinson
January 11, 2022

A veteran weather reporter from Portland, Oregon, is taken back to summer's swelter by a New Yorker piece that charted the human cost of rising temps

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