Search results for “coronavirus” Showing 79 results The news joins the rituals of mourning EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is published in partnership with our friends at the Poynter InstituteI was half-way through an essay on how the experience of news — especially in the… May 28, 2020 Reverse engineering your story or project A friend reached out this past week, asking if I would chat with a friend of his. The second friend — I’ll call her J — runs a non-profit news… May 26, 2020 Journalism lives at the check-out counter The job I moved back to New Hampshire for was not Shift Supervisor at the local branch of a national drug store chain. Back in February, I folded up five… May 15, 2020 “Execution is as important as vision.” When I came across this line, it was in a recent interview between Esquire politics blogger Charles P. Pierce and U.S. Senator Angus King, an Independent from Maine who caucuses… May 13, 2020 A poet’s distanced farewell to his students is an anthem for the times "... remember this: life is a mystery to be lived; not a problem to be solved." May 12, 2020 A “nut case” buys a mountain town newspaper to save it Four months after acting on impulse, what has a non-journalist local hero learned about the romance and reality of journalism? May 6, 2020 Where writers write when they can’t write where they like to write Two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod often writes from home. But not always, and especially not on deadline. In a recent Facebook post, he mentioned that when he is… April 29, 2020 Take small steps to tell the big story: Make free writing a daily discipline This column was originally published as an issue of Nieman Storyboard’s weekly newsletter. You can read back issues of the newsletter and subscribe here.Thoughts this week turn to the creativity… April 28, 2020 Building writing muscles — a postcard a day An award-winning sports reporter learns to relax his professional writing by penning personal notes on postcards April 28, 2020 A religion reporter profiles a charismatic community drawn to a “miracle Bible” Surprising stories spring from any number of places. Investigative or narrative or explanatory stories often start with curiosity sparked by a local news story or feature. That’s what happened when… April 14, 2020 Previous 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 Next
