Search results for “context” Showing 497 results Exposing what the police and courts wouldn’t — and what society owes in return It’s difficult to find a writer who isn’t haunted by a story. It could have been the quest that couldn’t catch a glint in an editor’s eye. Maybe one that… September 11, 2019 From the caress of love to the fists of fear EDITOR’S NOTE: This week, Nieman Reports magazine takes an unflinching look at domestic violence, and at the challenges and imperative of covering for what it is: not a “crime of… August 23, 2019 Reclaiming history with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up EDITOR’S NOTE: Four hundred years ago, a Portugueses ship landed at a port in Virginia. Its cargo was “20 and odd” humans — the survivors of a horrendous crossing from… August 23, 2019 Romancing the moon in the reality of time When it came time to write about the 50th anniversary of man’s first walk on the moon, Charles P. Pierce jettisoned sentimentality like a booster rocket.The opening of Pierce’s July… August 16, 2019 Unearthing L.A. through a tribal tongue In November 2017, Los Angeles Times staff writer Thomas Curwen noticed an email subject line that intrigued him: UCLA linguist seeking to awaken the sleeping language of the Tongva –… July 10, 2019 Rethinking how we see and understand news — and who frames it If you have taken a picture and shared it with no text, or studied a news image to see if it was “real,” or wondered if “photography” is an accurate… June 7, 2019 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 What’s in a 50-year-old photo? The lingering gutwrench of the Vietnam War I remember seeing the photo for the first time.It was spring, 1968. I was 17 years old, a high school senior who would register for the draft that coming June.… May 24, 2019 On trial for the Ghost Ship warehouse fire: Was an accused villain miscast as the bad guy? When Elizabeth Weil thought of profiling Max Harris, one of two people facing criminal charges for Oakland’s deadly Ghost Ship fire, she figured another reporter must already be on the… May 14, 2019 From a caress of love to a fist of fear In her 20 years traveling the world as a freelance writer, Rachel Louise Snyder has covered a hurricane in Honduras, a tsunami in Indonesia, and the forced sterilization of women… May 7, 2019 Previous 1 … 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 … 50 Next
