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Nut grafs: Triptych III ~ Sex, Springsteen and late-night rambles

Nut grafs: Triptych III ~ Sex, Springsteen and late-night rambles

EDITOR’S NOTE: Last week and this, we’re offering support to editors and educators for how to guide writers through an effective nut graf — however you spell it and whatever…
October 29, 2021
Nut grafs: A triptych of teaching approaches

Nut grafs: A triptych of teaching approaches

EDITOR’S NOTE: Last week and this, we’re offering support to editors and educators for how to guide writers through an effective nut graf — however you spell it and whatever…
October 27, 2021
Nut grafs: Seven steps to score a winning story structure

Nut grafs: Seven steps to score a winning story structure

A sports journalist now teaches college students how to build a story from the basics up and find the hard-to-hit nut
October 26, 2021
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
How to turn a theme and 900 words into sense-of-place poetry

How to turn a theme and 900 words into sense-of-place poetry

Kim Cross used smart pre-reporting, creative hustle and a night on a trampoline to find freedom in a reported essay about freedom
October 6, 2021
Lane DeGregory: Intimate access to a Florida COVID-19 ward, with conditions

Lane DeGregory: Intimate access to a Florida COVID-19 ward, with conditions

As a writer who routinely embeds in her subjects’ lives, the COVID pandemic was a blow to Lane DeGregory’s reporting. She was barred from sit-down interviews, where she would normally…
September 30, 2021
How a top explanatory reporter does emotional interviews: With empathy

How a top explanatory reporter does emotional interviews: With empathy

Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong of The Atlantic takes the same open approach with COVID scientists and frontline nurses
September 29, 2021
The New Yorker explores a dilemma in Ultra-Orthodox divorce: What about the children?

The New Yorker explores a dilemma in Ultra-Orthodox divorce: What about the children?

Writer Larissa MacFarquhar is drawn to stories that help her sort out issues that have no clear solutions
September 21, 2021
Reporting through privacy and pain to expose the scandal of Black amputations

Reporting through privacy and pain to expose the scandal of Black amputations

National Magazine Award winner Lizzie Presser documents the discrimination that leaves Black diabetes patients without easy and affordable care
September 15, 2021
Tracking shards of grief for 20 years, and daring to love your story subjects

Tracking shards of grief for 20 years, and daring to love your story subjects

Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic goes on a quest to find what a friend lost to 9/11 left behind, and delivers a meditation on love and grief
September 10, 2021