Search results for “context” Showing 497 results What we’re reading: one-eyed bullfighters, Boo, drug wars, breasts, death in the Yukon and swimming-pool salesmen There’s a lot of great work out there right now, people! Here are some of the stories and storytellers who’ve caught our attention lately — and why. Highlights: a Mexican cemetery… October 11, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 62: Ian Parker profiles Alec Baldwin As far as I can tell, the New Yorker staff writer Ian Parker has no Twitter feed, no website, no LinkedIn page and no TED profile. Even for that magazine, he's pretty… October 9, 2012 Notable narrative: "Fear of a Black President," by Ta-Nehisi Coates Guest-curating our latest Notable Narrative is Tom Levenson, professor of science writing at MIT and the author of four books, most recently Newton and the Counterfeiter. He chose Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Fear… September 28, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 55: Dave Gardetta, inside the Hollywood scene Around the turn of the millennium, big changes swept Hollywood. Suddenly and as never before, screens were clotted with the teen-fodder likes of Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and… August 21, 2012 Jeneen Interlandi on "When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind" We’ve chosen Jeneen Interlandi’s recent New York Times magazine cover story about her father’s mental illness as our latest Notable Narrative. “When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind” follows a… August 17, 2012 Viewfinder: Video journalism that works Whenever I go out on an assignment I get a few of the same questions from onlookers who see me with my tripod and my reasonably large video camera: “What… August 10, 2012 "You will always have work, and it will be the best kind of work" — Richard Rhodes on writing (Mayborn 2012, vol. 2) Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and of 23 other books, delivered one of the keynotes at this year’s Mayborn Conference for Literary Journalism.… August 2, 2012 The AP’s Kristen Gelineau, Ravi Nessman and Mary Rajkumar on the Saroo Brierley saga Two AP reporters and an editor on three continents produced the story that we’ve chosen as our latest Notable Narrative. Kristen Gelineau (Sydney), Ravi Nessman (Delhi), and Mary Rajkumar (Miami; she’s the AP’s international… July 20, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 50: Jennifer Gonnerman and real lives I often tell students, both undergraduate and graduate, that beautiful stories are everywhere. You can head off to Iraq and Afghanistan and pen a riveting war epic, but you can… July 17, 2012 Narrative + investigative: tips from IRE 2012, Part 1 At last month’s Investigative Reporters & Editors conference, in Boston, hundreds of reporters attended dozens of sessions on everything from analyzing unstructured data to working with the coolest web tools and building… July 12, 2012 Previous 1 … 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 … 50 Next
