Search results for “context” Showing 497 results Foreshadow forward; echo back. How writers harness the power of the callback In his “New in Town” standup comedy special, John Mulaney tells how, when he was 10, he was in love with his babysitter, who he thought was much older. But as… May 2, 2019 Learning from what seem the unkindest cuts There were two things I knew: I wanted to write a story about how heartburn can kill you, as it did my father, and I wanted to write for Undark,… April 24, 2019 About a bear: The story behind the story of “The Loneliest Polar Bear” “The Loneliest Polar Bear” wasn’t just a heart-tugging news story. It was a suspenseful, multi-thousand word saga about an abandoned newborn polar bear. It was rationed into five chapters that… April 19, 2019 Two sentences from books honored by 2019 Pulitzer Prizes and the lessons in journalism they inspired Awards from elite, independent institutions always offer a reminder of the powerful work being done by storytellers of all stripes. None moreso in journalism than the Pulitzer Prizes.This year’s Pulitzer… April 18, 2019 Insight from the other side of the notebook EDITOR’S NOTE: Mass shootings have become a tragic American story. School shootings are an especially searing chapter in that narrative. This week marks the 20th anniversary of Columbine, a high… April 16, 2019 “74 seconds” that led to a man’s death, a cop’s trial and a 22-episode podcast On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was killed by police officer Jeronimo Yanez during a traffic stop in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota. In the car with Castile at the time… April 10, 2019 Golden nuggets from the rich river of narrative nonfiction EDITOR’S NOTE: The 2o19 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University was a full immersion into the craft, challenges and characters of story work. We are scrambling to mine as… March 28, 2019 Learning to look up, down, sideways, backwards and beyond while storytelling Storytellers in any medium can learn from those in others. Writers must know how to paint mental images through the hieroglyphics of text, apply (and break) rules of grammar to… March 13, 2019 Wired’s executive editor seeks stories that reveal all faces of technology Rejections aren't personal: “70 percent of why pitches don't work has nothing to do with the writer” March 5, 2019 Building a museum with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up One day last October, Cara Solomon sat alone in an empty field in Alabama, the unmarked site of a lynching. She wasn’t carrying a reporter’s notebook or thinking yet about… February 26, 2019 Previous 1 … 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 … 50 Next
