Personal Essays

A career newspaperman warns of the dangers that come with viewing journalism and other creative work as "content"

A journalist-turned-teacher takes students on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail to explore the nation's challenges through a journalistic lens

A reporter sat with people in "the worst moments of their lives" but froze when it came time to talk to a famous writer

Journalist and nonfiction author Lauren Kessler spent three years teaching — and learning from — men who wrote their stories behind bars

A PhD researcher in neuroscience finds a useful tool to decide when and how to use personal stories in her science writing

A Canadian radio journalist fell in love with serial narrative podcasts, and is determined to help them find their known place at the storytelling table

By Dale KeigerIf you write for a living and stay with it long enough you will accumulate a bulging folder of journeyman’s work. You don’t renounce it and you don’t…

By Howard SinkerThe news reporting class I teach probably isn’t what you’d expect. The college where I teach doesn’t offer a journalism degree — and I’m good with that. My…

A writer and editor challenges the notion of born talent, and argues that superior skills are earned through a drive to learn the craft and do the work

An author who profiles sensitive subjects makes a case for "the journalism of empathy" and how to practice it