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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
Annotation Tuesday! Boris Muñoz and "Emptying the Tower of David, the World’s Tallest Ghetto"

Annotation Tuesday! Boris Muñoz and “Emptying the Tower of David, the World’s Tallest Ghetto”

Boris MuñozBoris Muñoz has spent most of his journalistic career in Venezuela, but has lived in the U.S. both while pursuing a PhD at Rutgers and since his year as…
December 1, 2015
“Why’s This So Good?” No. 98: Craig Childs and Muddy Waters

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 98: Craig Childs and Muddy Waters

Several writers have explored the ecological transformation of the Colorado River, dammed decades ago to supply water for 33 million people in the West and northern Mexico, but Craig Childs…
November 23, 2015

Amy Ellis Nutt: “Our Stories Choose Us”

Amy Ellis Nutt Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt is the author of three non-fiction books, including the recently released “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family.” The book…
November 12, 2015
Leslie Jamison: The Possibilities of the Personal

Leslie Jamison: The Possibilities of the Personal

The author of The Empathy Exams on whether empathy can be taught and how personal experience and specificities can link to abstract inquiries
October 21, 2015

Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and “The Things That Carried Him”

This story was published in May 2008, five years into Chris Jones’s career at Esquire. Jones was 35 at the time, and he says it was probably the best time…
September 29, 2015
How to Tell Powerful Narratives on Instagram

How to Tell Powerful Narratives on Instagram

Long-form narrative writer Neil Shea finds new storytelling possibilities in short posts on Instagram
September 23, 2015
Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography

Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography

I’m standing halfway up Hrushevskoho Street on a frosty February morning in Kiev. It’s -13 degrees Celsius, and I’m chain-smoking with my friend and fixer Emine. It makes us feel…
September 16, 2015

Annotation Tuesday! (Back-to-School Edition) Josh Roiland and His ‘Literary Journalism in America’ Syllabus

Below is an annotated version of my syllabus for the class “Literary Journalism in America.” I’ve taught this class eight times: five as part of the SAGES program at Case…
August 25, 2015