From the Editor Writing that dares to sing In the mood for a musical interlude — one that doesn’t involve the endless loop of holiday classics? Consider “The Beatles: Get Back,” running now on Disney+. (Don’t have Disney+? Find… December 8, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski The spiraling nature of news The news just never takes a rest, does it? Or maybe it’s a variation on the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, aka frequency bias: Once you’ve tapped into a certain story, related stories… November 17, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Stumbling into a social media community A few words on social media. I’m not going to get mired in the meta-mess that is Meta, the New&Never Improved Facebook. That’s well-trod territory. I admire and envy friends… November 11, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Collected reflections on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” Today is the 76th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. That’s not a notable number in the rather arbitrary realm of anniversary stories. But the event itself just seems to… August 6, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski The journalistic dangers of binary thinking Meet Bethany Grace Howe, above. I met her a little over 10 years ago when she came to the Missouri School of Journalism as a nontraditional graduate student. “Nontraditional” essentially… June 30, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski How Memorial Day memories become today’s stories The Memorial Day weekend caught me by surprise. After 16 months of no travel, and a schedule dictated only by this weekly newsletter, I lost the daily rhythm of showing… May 31, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski How lessons from past stories can inform future stories My morning NPR ritual recently brought back two major landmarks in my journalism career this past week. May 18 was both the 41st anniversary of the eruption of Mount St.… May 26, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Writing: Nine parts mechanic, one part muse I spent the early years of my journalism career struggling with pretty much everything about the job, but especially with the writing. The reporting was often uncomfortable as I pushed… May 20, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski The slogging reality of writing The daughter of a friend reached out to me recently, seeking a bit of advice. She’s a young millennial and, after dabbling in various dabbles, she’s come back around to… April 26, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Some uncomfortable challenges facing journalism Some core questions I have about the challenges facing journalists were revived by a few things I read last week. None were surprising, but all carried nagging concerns that date… April 13, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Previous 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
