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Shout-out to 2021 News Leaders Association winners

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…
Fifty years of Robert Caro's reporting notes going public

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…
Writing rituals: Superstition or productivity?

Writing rituals: Superstition or productivity?

A book captures the obsessive habits of great authors — quirks that writing coach Chip Scanlan says help writers focus and summon the Muse
When the narrative becomes the disease

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…
A needle in time to heal pains of the past

A needle in time to heal pains of the past

The Power of Storytelling: A journalist and novelist with a painful legacy picks up threads of the family story she's never known how to write
Gems of wisdom: Start writing, read out loud, and send handwritten notes

Gems of wisdom: Start writing, read out loud, and send handwritten notes

Notes from The Mayborn: A first-timer finds comfort and good advice
Serendipity brings two men together on the football field, and in the rest of life

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.…
Beyond Boko Haram: Pictures from Nigeria

Beyond Boko Haram: Pictures from Nigeria

Photojournalist Rahima Gambo invited schoolgirls to collaborate with her to create images reflecting intimate moments of joy and playfulness that challenge our perceptions of victimhood and war
Altered states of storytelling at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

Altered states of storytelling at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

Possbilities are vast, but in the current media climate, it is hard to feel complacent about the technological manipulation of reality when its potential disruption is so easy to imagine
The thing with feathers: Burkhard Bilger and his haute-couture "plumassier"

The thing with feathers: Burkhard Bilger and his haute-couture “plumassier”

In his profile of a fashion creative who works exclusively with feathers, The New Yorker reporter shows off his own plumage in the beautiful writing