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Annotation Tuesday: The shadowy world of “involuntary celibates”

Elliot Rodger, 22, who went on a deadly rampage near a California university, was an “involuntary celibate.” Most in the “incel” culture disavowed his actions. Writer Peter C. Baker’s recent…
June 21, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Scoles and “How to Save People from Snakebites”

Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Scoles and “How to Save People from Snakebites”

Science presents particular challenges for narrative writers, like deciphering the often arcane language of scientific studies, or coaxing pithy quotes from scientists accustomed to speaking in academicese, and wary of…
March 1, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Matt Negrin and "Silence in the Favela"

Annotation Tuesday! Matt Negrin and “Silence in the Favela”

Matt Negrin writes politics, not sports. Just 29, the Bloomberg Politics reporter’s first job after college was live-blogging about President Obama for Politico, and he’s also written for ABC’s World News. Two years…
February 16, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Elizabeth Weil and "What Really Happened to Baby Johan?"

Annotation Tuesday! Elizabeth Weil and “What Really Happened to Baby Johan?”

Elizabeth Weil had never written about criminal justice, but when asked to write about a controversial case of whether a baby was killed by his father, she produced the gripping “What…
February 9, 2016

Annotation Tuesday! Emily Yoffe and “The College Rape Overcorrection”

How to spark strong emotions in a story with lots of numbers and no central character
January 26, 2016

Annotation Tuesday! Jenna Pirog on Virtual Reality in “The Displaced”

A good story transports its audience to the scene of the action. The classics of narrative nonfiction are memorable because they find the words that put the reader in the…
January 19, 2016

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 100: Susan Dominus and “Hana”

Refugee children usually appear in the news media because they’ve died in a shocking accident, or they’re seen as a threat to the social order or the security of a…
January 19, 2016

Jake Silverstein: “Immersing you in worlds not your own”

New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein on telling stories with virtual reality
January 19, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Anthony Ronzio of the Bangor Daily News on "The Good Life"

Annotation Tuesday! Anthony Ronzio of the Bangor Daily News on “The Good Life”

Anthony Ronzio (Credit: Gabor Degre | BDN)Over the past two years the Bangor Daily News, a small-town newspaper in central Maine, has made a name for itself by publishing ambitious…
January 12, 2016

Annotation Tuesday! Faith Kohler and the documentary “30 Seconds Away”

In cities across the country, hundreds of thousands of homeless men, women and children live on the streets. We pass by them every day, yet they are almost invisible to…
January 5, 2016