Search results for “5 questions” Showing 785 results The big idea: How to find enterprising stories Editor’s note: A great many Storyboard readers are journalism students, nonfiction writers in MFA programs, and beginning reporters and editors. The pieces in our Essays on Craft department cater to… February 6, 2014 Storytelling and policy: The Washington Post’s new narrative project The expansive projects that Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron announced today is good news for narrative journalists in two ways: The paper plans to expand the Sunday magazine (we… January 29, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Buzz Bissinger and “The Killing Trail” Buzz Bissinger’s “The Killing Trail” — his unremittingly bleak 1995 account of “fag-bashing” in Texas — was his first story for Vanity Fair. (He is still a contributor, and has… January 28, 2014 The journalist and Dr. V To be a journalist on Twitter in the past four days has meant taking part, one way or another, in one of the more heated story dissections in recent memory.… January 19, 2014 “Why’s this so good?” No. 88: Katherine Boo and the marriage cure Katharine Boo begins her 2003 New Yorker piece “The Marriage Cure” with one of my all-time favorite opening lines:One July morning last year in Oklahoma City, in a public-housing project… January 14, 2014 Roundup: 2013 Best of Narrative Storytelling in Journalism For our second annual Best of Narrative roundup, our selectors reported an anguishing task: so many great pieces, so few berths. Enjoy these top picks from 2013. And Happy New… December 30, 2013 Annotation Tuesday! Lillian Ross and Ernest Hemingway It’s easy, now, to see Lillian Ross’s 1950 New Yorker Profile of Ernest Hemingway for what it is: a masterpiece. But 63 years ago, this wasn’t so obvious. Ross, as… December 17, 2013 Writing the book: Jason Fagone and ‘Ingenious’ I got the deal to write my first book, Horsemen of the Esophagus, in the spring of 2005. I’d been out of college for four years at that point, writing… December 12, 2013 “Narrative Sweat & Flow,” Part 4: Tom Hallman Jr. and Chris Jones Editor’s note: The Oregonian’s Simina Mistreanu spoke to seven narrative journalists for her University of Missouri School of Journalism master’s project on longform. Last week, we ran her setup, a piece on the… December 10, 2013 “Narrative Sweat & Flow,” Part 3: Amy Harmon and Anne Hull Editor’s note: The Oregonian’s Simina Mistreanu spoke to seven narrative journalists for her University of Missouri master’s project on longform. On Tuesday, we ran her setup, a piece on the challenges and importance… December 6, 2013 Previous 1 … 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 … 79 Next
