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Meet the phone phreaks, the grandfathers of today's hackers (Russian or otherwise)

Meet the phone phreaks, the grandfathers of today’s hackers (Russian or otherwise)

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
February 17, 2017
A Saudi feminist's spoken-word performance finds its power in protest

A Saudi feminist’s spoken-word performance finds its power in protest

Waad Janbi, a Saudi feminist and aspiring filmmaker, has long fought against misogyny using her hands–furiously typing on her smartphone or laptop. But last month, for the first time, she…
February 16, 2017
Annotation Tuesday! Ron Rosenbaum and "The Secrets of the Little Blue Box"

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
5(ish) Questions: Inara Verzemnieks and "Life in Obamacare's Dead Zone"

5(ish) Questions: Inara Verzemnieks and “Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone”

“Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone,” Inara Verzemnieks’ story about the health insurance coverage gap, came out in the New York Times Magazine a month after the presidential election, as the media buzzed…
February 9, 2017

“I think that the dying pray at the last not ‘please,’ but ‘thank you,’ as a guest thanks a host at the door.”

—Annie Dillard, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
February 8, 2017
Get your piping hot National Magazine Awards winners right here!

Get your piping hot National Magazine Awards winners right here!

The American Society of Magazine Editors held its annual Ellies awards gala today, and it was a big night for Mother Jones and The New York Times Magazine.Here’s a handy list of…
February 7, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Ted Conover and “Immersion: A Writer's Guide to Going Deep”

5(ish) Questions: Ted Conover and “Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep”

The journalist, who has spent the last 30 years immersing himself in others' lives, talks about going beyond the "cardboard versions" of people, and the ethics of undercover reporting
February 7, 2017
Trying to find the dividing line between "travel writing" and "writing about place"

Trying to find the dividing line between “travel writing” and “writing about place”

Two-time Pulitzer winner Paul Salopek, now on a years-long trek that is "slow journalism" personified, and two others talk about storytelling that happens to involve travel
February 2, 2017
"I’m here to remind you today that great journalism can also find ordinary, regular people and find the extraordinary in what they do"

“I’m here to remind you today that great journalism can also find ordinary, regular people and find the extraordinary in what they do”

At Harvard's "The Future of News: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era" event, Chicago Tribune reporter Lolly Bowean says that going small can sometimes forge connections -- and overcome divisions --…
February 2, 2017
Annotation Tuesday! Adrian Chen and “Unfollow”

Annotation Tuesday! Adrian Chen and “Unfollow”

The New Yorker writer talks about his story on the awakening of a daughter of the reviled Westboro Baptist Church, calling it "a culmination of things I was writing about…
January 31, 2017