Search results for “power of storytelling” Showing 456 results Is it real? Or is it Instagram? The Internet of 2019 is rife with social-media influencers and articles about them. Much of the coverage is fawning and superficial: how to become one, how to make $3,000 per Instagram… November 13, 2019 Singular moments, timeless questions Sunday, December 28, 1986. An ordinary day, much like any other. Except in two operating rooms at Fairfax Hospital in suburban Virginia, where something extraordinary was about to happen.In one… October 22, 2019 Lessons from biographer Robert Caro’s instructive mini-memoir “Working” If there were no Robert Caro, he could not easily be invented. Consider the job description: Commit your career to exhaustive research into the lives of two legendarily powerful men,… October 15, 2019 Stories that unfold — and pain that is measured — from the ground up You can almost smell the cedar-hewn totem poles and see them rise from the soil, so evocative is “We Didn’t Stand A Chance,” Joshua Hunt’s personal essay about opioid abuse… October 9, 2019 Subjectivity, hugs and craft: Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism The literary journalism movement unleashed by Capote, Didion, Mailer and Wolfe in the 1960s is reinventing itself in a remarkably powerful way October 8, 2019 Chasing ghosts that will forever haunt "Ghosts of Highway 20:" Through serendipity, creativity and care, a newspaper in Oregon finds answers 40 years after police and courts failed August 27, 2019 Reclaiming history with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up EDITOR’S NOTE: Four hundred years ago, a Portugueses ship landed at a port in Virginia. Its cargo was “20 and odd” humans — the survivors of a horrendous crossing from… August 23, 2019 Covering failures in the justice system with patience for facts and sensitivity to victims Journalism that explores “true crime” is booming, in everything from investigative stories to books to gripping TV documentaries. But it can easily risk being exploitative.That cautionary note comes from Pamela… July 31, 2019 Unearthing L.A. through a tribal tongue In November 2017, Los Angeles Times staff writer Thomas Curwen noticed an email subject line that intrigued him: UCLA linguist seeking to awaken the sleeping language of the Tongva –… July 10, 2019 Rethinking how we see and understand news — and who frames it If you have taken a picture and shared it with no text, or studied a news image to see if it was “real,” or wondered if “photography” is an accurate… June 7, 2019 Previous 1 … 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 … 46 Next
