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Digital longform, and the pitfalls of the "build it and they will come" approach to business models

Digital longform, and the pitfalls of the “build it and they will come” approach to business models

“I don’t know what we were thinking.”“Well, what do you think?”“You tell me. I have no idea.”When Aleksandr Gorbachev decided to research the business models of digital longform publications for…
July 14, 2016
Gay Talese: the latest scorecard on the scandals

Gay Talese: the latest scorecard on the scandals

So I leave the country for a few weeks, and I miss the latest Twitter storm surrounding Gay Talese. The world may have moved on to Pokemon (and by the…
July 13, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English

Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English

My first memory of reading something by Tom Curwen is like one of those dreams where you wake up and you want to hold onto it, but it slips away…
July 12, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and "The Man in the Woods"

Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and “The Man in the Woods”

Ashley Powers spent the first decade of her career at the Los Angeles Times, working her way up from intern to breaking news reporter to national correspondent. When she left…
June 28, 2016
Annotation Tuesday: The shadowy world of "involuntary celibates"

Annotation Tuesday: The shadowy world of “involuntary celibates”

Elliot Rodger, 22, who went on a deadly rampage near a California university, was an “involuntary celibate.” Most in the “incel” culture disavowed his actions.Writer Peter C. Baker’s recent work…
June 21, 2016
The Power of Oral History as Journalism

The Power of Oral History as Journalism

First-person reports about Bill Cosby and Chernobyl bring new attention to an old form of storytelling
May 5, 2016

Farah Stockman: “I’m not going to write about them like they’re failures”

A columnist looks back at whether a summer program for poor children had an impact
April 28, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Jesse Katz goes “Inside the San Quentin Marathon”

Annotation Tuesday! Jesse Katz goes “Inside the San Quentin Marathon”

For many of his 30-plus years in the journalism business, Jesse Katz has been covering crime. Back in the early 1990s, his former employer The Los Angeles Times assigned him…
April 26, 2016

Susan Orlean: “My method of reporting is just to be there”

Susan Orlean is storied for her stories. Since 1992 she’s been a staff writer at The New Yorker, and her 1998 book “The Orchid Thief” was made into the movie…
April 22, 2016
"Power of Narrative" Conference: Mary Roach's bad habits

“Power of Narrative” Conference: Mary Roach’s bad habits

Mary Roach doesn’t do her homework. She didn’t go to J-school. By her own admission, she’s never quite sure she knows what she’s doing.“I always have the sense that I’m…
April 8, 2016