From the Editor The challenge of writing a life in two lines On May 23, 2020, (May 24 in print), the New York Times landed a daring and historic front page: A wash of overwhelming gray, which jumped to two more gray… June 10, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski A confluence of hard news that demands uncomfortable considerations All news is the stuff of history. But some deserves more than a dusty archive to be stumbled upon by a research scholar. It is an immediate marker that demands… June 9, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski Reverse engineering your story or project A friend reached out this past week, asking if I would chat with a friend of his. The second friend — I’ll call her J — runs a non-profit news… May 26, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski Take small steps to tell the big story: Make free writing a daily discipline This column was originally published as an issue of Nieman Storyboard’s weekly newsletter. You can read back issues of the newsletter and subscribe here.Thoughts this week turn to the creativity… April 28, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski Coronavirus is a reminder of this universal lesson: No experience is ours until it is This column was originally published as an issue of Nieman Storyboard’s weekly newsletter. You can read back issues of the newsletter and subscribe here.We read most stories from a distance… March 6, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski If it was good enough for Jane Austen … My mother’s reverence for education, a solid grounding in middle-school grammar, and a long career in old-school journalism has chiseled me into one of those people who honors language, and… September 13, 2019 Jacqui Banaszynski Previous 1 … 12 13 14 15
