Search results for “citizen journalism” Showing 126 results A sex worker plunges to her death and a reporter demands to know: Who was she? Dan Barry led a team at The New York Times to uncover a name, a life history, and the sinister world of power and exploitation on 40th Road June 4, 2019 A tribute: On Herman Wouk and the incandescence of “Youngblood Hawke” A 12-year-old Chip Scanlan "borrowed" his brother's book, read under the covers by flashlight, and vowed to become a writer May 28, 2019 What’s in a 50-year-old photo? The lingering gutwrench of the Vietnam War An iconic photo from the 1968 Tet Offensive is revisited, raising questions about memory, identity, and and how we honor those who served May 24, 2019 A prescient voice speaks for the Earth Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” turns 70 this year. At a time when writing about ecological emergency is emotionally and politically fraught, the “Almanac” is a balm of wisdom… February 5, 2019 From a Kickstarter about avocados to conviction as an American spy How Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian turned 544 days in an Iranian prison into a story about love, journalism and a broken homeland January 22, 2019 Finding a narrative in “our most urgent national conversation”: the one about guns How three reporters, a national news chain and 21 strangers who met to talk became a 5,000-word tale with character, intimacy, structure and drama October 23, 2018 Q&A: How a letter, honesty and patience won the trust of a shamed school cop Washington Post narrative writer Eli Saslow answers an essential question: "How'd he get that guy to talk to him?" August 16, 2018 Newest Americans: stories of immigrants who help make the country great The collaborative project asks: "What could be more salient at a time when our nation is debating what it means to be American and who deserves to claim that mantle?” April 3, 2018 Matthew Pearl and “Into the Shadows” (Filed under: You can’t make this stuff up) The historical novelist talks about his Boston Globe Magazine yarn and how he answered the question, "Who were America's first detectives?" November 28, 2017 Nikole Hannah-Jones on reporting about racial inequality: “What drives me is rage” At the Power of Storytelling conference, the writer talks about Charlottesville and entrenched racism that reaches back 400 years in America October 26, 2017 Previous 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 … 13 Next