Story Annotations Is it real? Or is it Instagram? The Internet of 2019 is rife with social-media influencers and articles about them. Much of the coverage is fawning and superficial: how to become one, how to make $3,000 per Instagram… November 13, 2019 Emily Sohn When gun violence visits, a workaday mayor — and hard-working journalist — respond By early August of this year, 253 American cities had been added to the map of mass shootings. For a day or two after yet another event, officials in these… September 18, 2019 Chip Scanlan Exposing what the police and courts wouldn’t — and what society owes in return It’s difficult to find a writer who isn’t haunted by a story. It could have been the quest that couldn’t catch a glint in an editor’s eye. Maybe one that… September 11, 2019 Chip Scanlan Chasing ghosts that will forever haunt "Ghosts of Highway 20:" Through serendipity, creativity and care, a newspaper in Oregon finds answers 40 years after police and courts failed August 27, 2019 Chip Scanlan A “book report” on The Mueller Report Alexandra Petri EDITOR’S NOTE: The Mueller Report (capitalized by most news organizations, which is interesting unto itself) was released April 18, 2019 — almost two months ago. Also on April… June 12, 2019 Jennifer Hager A sex worker plunges to her death and a reporter demands to know: Who was she? Dan Barry led a team at The New York Times to uncover a name, a life history, and the sinister world of power and exploitation on 40th Road June 4, 2019 Chip Scanlan On trial for the Ghost Ship warehouse fire: Was an accused villain miscast as the bad guy? When Elizabeth Weil thought of profiling Max Harris, one of two people facing criminal charges for Oakland’s deadly Ghost Ship fire, she figured another reporter must already be on the… May 14, 2019 Katia Savchuk From a caress of love to a fist of fear In her 20 years traveling the world as a freelance writer, Rachel Louise Snyder has covered a hurricane in Honduras, a tsunami in Indonesia, and the forced sterilization of women… May 7, 2019 Ricki Morell Learning to look up, down, sideways, backwards and beyond while storytelling Storytellers in any medium can learn from those in others. Writers must know how to paint mental images through the hieroglyphics of text, apply (and break) rules of grammar to… March 13, 2019 Jacqui Banaszynski Wired’s executive editor seeks stories that reveal all faces of technology Rejections aren't personal: “70 percent of why pitches don't work has nothing to do with the writer” March 5, 2019 Katia Savchuk Previous 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 … 19 Next
