Search results for “pinned” Showing 58 results Shout-out to 2021 News Leaders Association winners Congratulations to winners of the 2021 NLA Awards, announced this week by the News Leaders Association (the merger of the former American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Associated Press… April 6, 2021 Fifty years of Robert Caro’s reporting notes going public Oh, to study those yellowed pages, with words pecked by a typewriter, then crossed out and scribbled over and typed on more pages. To marvel at those scrapbooks — more… January 12, 2021 Writing rituals: Superstition or productivity? I’d heard the story many times before, but I still couldn’t believe it:Gay Talese pinned his manuscript pages to the wall of his office. He then walked across the room to… August 12, 2020 When the narrative becomes the disease EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is published in partnership with our friends at the Poynter Institute. It’s happening again, as it always happens with disease. Our fear of contagion has turned some… April 13, 2020 A needle in time to heal pains of the past It is widely believed that storytellers can turn almost anything into a good story, which gives them a bottomless well of topics. But even the celebrated ones, like Romanian-Moldovan writer… November 22, 2019 Gems of wisdom: Start writing, read out loud, and send handwritten notes I wasn’t sure what to expect.This would be my first time attending the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference and, as in any situation where I’m faced with the unknown, I was… August 1, 2019 Serendipity brings two men together on the football field, and in the rest of life A story that garners wide acclaim, gets multiple plays across ESPN and draws tweets from Reese Witherspoon is not your everyday deadline fare. For most writers, it will never happen.… November 13, 2018 Beyond Boko Haram: Pictures from Nigeria Nigeria is a country rich in stories and in storytelling. Nigerians have long traditions of sharing their testimonies through literature and visual communication. The work of writers like Chinua Achebe… June 7, 2018 Altered states of storytelling at the L.A. Times Festival of Books The L.A. Times Book Festival, held over the weekend of April 21-22, is an annual celebration of reading and literary culture in a town often stereotyped as not exactly bookish.… May 1, 2018 The thing with feathers: Burkhard Bilger and his haute-couture “plumassier” Is participatory journalism a good thing? Burkhard Bilger may have pondered that while clinging to the subject of his recent New Yorker profile as the twosome zoomed through Paris on… February 27, 2018 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next
