Narrative News

How to tell a good story, by Stephen Sondheim: Hummable helps

How to tell a good story, by Stephen Sondheim: Hummable helps

It would be repetitive, at this point, to add yet one more tribute to Stephen Sondheim. For 50 years, he reigned supreme as a Broadway lyricist and mentor, giving us…
November 30, 2021
Jacqui Banaszynski
Jim Sheeler's legacy to journalism: Empathy, decency and stories that last

Jim Sheeler’s legacy to journalism: Empathy, decency and stories that last

In late August, Jim Tankersley, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, learned he was going to be the pool reporter following President Biden to Dover Air Force…
October 13, 2021
Matt Tullis
Jim Sheeler turned the simple obituary into a high and reverent art

Jim Sheeler turned the simple obituary into a high and reverent art

A brief anecdote in a Denver Post story about Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Sheeler describes how a new reporter was seated next to him in the newsroom of the Rocky…
September 23, 2021
Jacqui Banaszynski
What the "Insect Apocalypse" reveals about faulty human memory

What the “Insect Apocalypse” reveals about faulty human memory

EDITOR’S NOTE: The report released this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does not equivocate: Global warming is real, human-caused, catastrophic — and leaves a narrowing window to…
August 12, 2021
Ben Goldfarb
A conversation with Nathaniel Rich on "Losing Earth," human inertia and storytelling as "a moral act"

A conversation with Nathaniel Rich on “Losing Earth,” human inertia and storytelling as “a moral act”

EDITOR’S NOTE: The report released this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does not equivocate: Global warming is real, human-caused, catastrophic — and leaves a narrowing window to…
August 11, 2021
Rebecca Boyle

Industry news that honors the craft and reflects the times

Even the most dramatic news about the journalism is seldom a surprise. Budgets are cut. Awards are given. Veterans retire or are bought out. Book contracts are signed.But collecting a…
July 1, 2021
Jacqui Banaszynski
From city hall scoops to breaking news to profiles to narratives

From city hall scoops to breaking news to profiles to narratives

Lizzie Johnson’s work covering the deadly wildfires that have scorched California in recent years has earned a place in these posts in the past. Most notable was an annotation of…
May 6, 2021
Jacqui Banaszynski
Taking the "student" out of student journalist

Taking the “student” out of student journalist

Remember Eddy Binford-Ross? If not, here’s your chance to catch up and collect a little inspiration.Eddy Binford-RossEddy is a senior in South Salem High School in Oregon, and editor of…
April 15, 2021
Jacqui Banaszynski
Two anti-racist scholars and writers take on the cultural limits of "objectivity"

Two anti-racist scholars and writers take on the cultural limits of “objectivity”

As an early-career environmental journalist, I guessed that objectivity was the most important goal in the field. But as a poet finishing up an MFA at Southern Illinois University Carbondale,…
April 7, 2021
Britny Cordera
Shout-out to 2021 News Leaders Association winners

Shout-out to 2021 News Leaders Association winners

Congratulations to winners of the 2021 NLA Awards, announced this week by the News Leaders Association (the merger of the former American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Associated Press…
April 6, 2021
Jacqui Banaszynski