Story Craft

Maybe not 99, but at least a few dozen bottles of beer are along the wall. We take one down, pass it around, make sure the barcode on the bottle…

A learning-teaching journalist shares lessons learned as she revisited the realities of her mother's death and her own eating disorder

When I asked Saadia Khan whether or not she identifies as a journalist, she said no. Her definition of a journalist: “someone with a degree in journalism or has worked…

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

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of five posts from the 2022 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. Read Ellen Barry on first-person narratives, Lizzie Johnson on deadline narratives and Debbie Cenziper…

Editor’s note: This is one of five posts from the 2022 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. For other takeaways, see Ellen Barry on first-person narratives and Lizzie Johnson…

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

The New York Times reporter takes on first-person writing in her profile of a mysterious Indian "prince"

Ah, those pesky numbers. Not, we journalists are often told, our strong suit. Or to cite the old and very lame joke: “Jourmalists don’t do math.”And yet we must, especially…

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