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"Narrative Sweat & Flow," Part 2: Lane DeGregory and David Finkel

“Narrative Sweat & Flow,” Part 2: Lane DeGregory and David Finkel

Editor’s note: The Oregonian’s Simina Mistreanu spoke to seven narrative journalists for her University of Missouri master's project on longform. On Tuesday, we ran her piece on the challenges and…
December 5, 2013
"Narrative Sweat & Flow:" Seven writers, one inquiring student

“Narrative Sweat & Flow:” Seven writers, one inquiring student

Editor's note: First, an introduction, by Jacqui Banaszynski, the Knight Chair in Editing at the Missouri School of Journalism, and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing: Whenever aspiring young…
December 3, 2013
What they're tweeting: oral histories

What they’re tweeting: oral histories

Twitter breeds all kinds of storytelling conversation starters, and we’ve started rounding them up. Texas Monthly’s Pamela Colloff tweeted for recommendations on crime writing and empathy a couple of weeks…
November 14, 2013
Pinned: The danger edition

Pinned: The danger edition

New to our Pinterest page of storytelling wonders: mosquitoes, BASE jumpers, war crimes, gas leaks, cadavers, white noise, a self-policing ex-NFL player and the “problem” with narrative interactivity.From Recommended Reading:In…
November 8, 2013
Featured Fellow: Robert Caro

Featured Fellow: Robert Caro

Robert CaroNieman Class of 1966The bestselling biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Caro has won every major literary prize — some of them, such as the Pulitzer, twice. In 2010,…
September 27, 2013
Featured Fellow: Anne Hull

Featured Fellow: Anne Hull

Anne HullClass of 1995A longtime Washington Post reporter, Hull won the Pulitzer for Public Service in 2008, for reporting, with Dana Priest, that exposed substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army…
September 26, 2013
Featured Fellow: Kevin Cullen

Featured Fellow: Kevin Cullen

Kevin CullenNieman Class of 2003A longtime Metro columnist at the Boston Globe, Cullen shared a 2003 Pulitzer for investigative reporting on the sex abuse scandal within the Catholic Church. He…
September 25, 2013
Featured Fellow: Julia Keller

Featured Fellow: Julia Keller

Julia KellerNieman Class of 1998A former Chicago Tribune reporter and cultural critic, Keller won the 2005 Pulitzer for feature writing, for her “gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second…
September 24, 2013
Featured Fellow: Dexter Filkins

Featured Fellow: Dexter Filkins

Dexter FilkinsNieman Class of 2007A war correspondent and author, Filkins became a New Yorker staff writer in January 2011, after spending more than a decade at the New York Times,…
September 23, 2013
Featured Fellow: Craig Welch

Featured Fellow: Craig Welch

Craig WelchNieman Class of 2007Welch has been the Seattle Times’ environment writer for the past 13 years, and in conjunction with the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting he recently published…
September 23, 2013