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Celebrating "Slow Journalism" and the Pulitzers' 100th birthday (You look fabulous, darling)

Celebrating “Slow Journalism” and the Pulitzers’ 100th birthday (You look fabulous, darling)

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,…
August 5, 2016
The Pulitzer at 100: The Boston Globe's Spotlight team and an epic series on priest abuse

The Pulitzer at 100: The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team and an epic series on priest abuse

In 1986, Patrick McSorley was a 12-year-old-boy living in a Boston housing project. His dad had just committed suicide, and his mom was schizophrenic. One day, a Catholic priest named…
August 4, 2016
Digital longform as journalism jetpack, and "Walking While Black"

Digital longform as journalism jetpack, and “Walking While Black”

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,…
July 15, 2016
Rebecca Nesson: "I like aliveness, whether it's miserable or whether it's ecstatic"

Rebecca Nesson: “I like aliveness, whether it’s miserable or whether it’s ecstatic”

Rebecca Nesson crafted an oral story for the Moth on her marital crisis.Three years ago, Rebecca Nesson thought her marriage was falling apart. During a bitter argument with her husband,…
July 7, 2016
Musicians who love to write, and writers who love music -- a roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure

Musicians who love to write, and writers who love music — a roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure

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,…
July 1, 2016
Of Aretha on vinyl, and Cheever on ink and paper

Of Aretha on vinyl, and Cheever on ink and paper

When I was the Column One editor at the L.A. Times, I used to do a weekly note to readers that really made me feel connected to them. I met…
June 10, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Antonio Regalado and liquid biopsies

Annotation Tuesday! Antonio Regalado and liquid biopsies

In August 2014 Antonio Regalado introduced an almost heretical approach to cancer treatment to the wider world in a feature he wrote for MIT Technology Review. Regalado, the senior biomedicine…
April 5, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe on “The life and times of Strider Wolf”

Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe on “The life and times of Strider Wolf”

Sarah Schweitzer has spent almost two decades honing her narrative instincts at The Boston Globe and the St. Petersburg Times. In April 2015 she was acknowledged by the Pulitzer Prize…
March 14, 2016
Notable Narrative: Ken Armstrong, T. Christian Miller and "An Unbelievable Story of Rape"

Notable Narrative: Ken Armstrong, T. Christian Miller and “An Unbelievable Story of Rape”

Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller found themselves in the odd position of moving from competitors to collaborators, over the course of a phone call or two and a few…
January 26, 2016
The 5 Most Read "Why's This So Good?" Essays

The 5 Most Read “Why’s This So Good?” Essays

We just posted our 100th “Why’s This So Good?,” Abeer Najjar’s look at the Susan Dominus story in the New York Times Magazine, “Hana.” Nearly twice a month since June…
January 20, 2016