Notable Narratives A Queen Arrives, and Even in Jaded New York, Jaws Drop A harbor pilot steers a great ship through the Verrazano Narrows, the last task of his career. This piece is attentively and elegantly told. What we find most instructive is… November 17, 2004 Nell Lake In Her Mother’s Shoes This is the last line of the first installment of Bock’s series on AIDS in Africa: “For two days and two nights, while the men tend the fire outside, the… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake The Boy Behind the Mask Hallman spent hundreds of hours and more than 10 months reporting for this series, about a disfigured young boy in Oregon. He says he did very little reconstruction, that most… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Three Little Words In 1989 Jane Morse’s husband, Mick, tells her he has AIDS and, as Clark writes, Jane suddenly suspects that her long marriage has been a lie. A reader may at… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake The Weight of a Family’s Hopes Hull uses detail to full effect but also embeds comments in her narrative that advance her larger point. Notice this phrase in the lead paragraph of this third installment: Amy’s… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake The Terrorist Within This series was written by Hal Bernton, Mike Carter, David Heath and James Neff. It builds plot skillfully, progressing through a classic beginning, middle and end. It also offers what… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Getting In Gross’s series is an example of using profile to examine larger social contexts or processes, in this case the college-admissions game. The style is airy, the content more weighty, the… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Skye’s the Limit DeGregory chronicles the efforts of a 13-year-old devout Christian girl and her backstage mom to make the girl a pop star. DeGregory deftly writes for both believer and nonbeliever: Her… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Mrs. Kelly’s Monster Franklin leads his readers through the grisly, tense terrain of brain surgery, moment by moment. We experience the story as if it were live reporting: Franklin tells it in present… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake The Hurt Between the Lines In this final installment of the Times race series, a reporter turns her attention to another journalistic effort to address race in America. The Akron Beacon Journal won a Pulitzer… November 16, 2004 Nell Lake Previous 1 … 39 40 41 42 43 44 Next
