Search results for “context” Showing 516 results 5 Questions: Anne Helen Petersen and the white supremacists who came for Whitefish The BuzzFeed writer talks about the contradictions of a small Montana town and the West, and why she seeks understanding, not empathy April 20, 2017 Why’s This So Good? Hunter S. Thompson and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” It’s hard, I know, to make a case for gonzo journalism in an age when reality is beset by exaggeration, even lies. And yet I’ve found myself drawn back to… April 13, 2017 Annotation Tuesday! Kent Russell and “They Burn Witches Here” The writer talks about his Huffington Post Highline piece on ritualistic killings in Papua New Guinea -- and the differences between scapegoating in philosophy and in blood-curdling real life April 11, 2017 The making of binge-worthy serial narratives, from “S-Town” to “Framed” Podcasts and print alike are reinvigorating a form of storytelling that Dickens and Homer used to hook readers: "to be continued..." April 4, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Rania Abouzeid and “The Jihad Next Door” The Beirut-based writer talks about the dangers of reporting her Politico piece on extremists in Iraq and Syria, and why on-the-ground reporting is vital March 23, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Diarmid Mogg and the crazy-compelling “Small Town Noir” The Scotsman's website is a rabbit hole of midcentury mug shots and the stories of the everyday people of a Pennsylvania town at probably the worst moment in their lives March 14, 2017 Notable Narrative: Bernt Jakob Oksnes and “The Baby in the Plastic Bag” The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet bucked the short-attention-span trend by committing to a nine-part serial -- and it paid off both in readers and a powerful narrative about an infant left… March 7, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Latino USA producer Marlon Bishop on the backstory of the NPR show’s most downloaded episode ever A show that was more than a year in the making about the controversial prisoner Oscar López Rivera scored journalism gold, coming out just days after the Puerto Rican was… March 2, 2017 Annotation Tuesday! Ron Rosenbaum and “The Secrets of the Little Blue Box” The writer talks about his eerily prescient 1971 Esquire classic about "phone phreaks," and how it inspired Steve Jobs (who later said, “If we hadn’t made blue boxes, there would… February 14, 2017 “A big pair of garden shears sat on the counter, as foreboding as Chekhov’s gun on the mantel.” —Christopher Solomon, "The Detective of Northern Oddities," Outside magazine, January 4, 2017. January 25, 2017 Previous 1 … 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 … 52 Next
