Search results for “roy peter clark” Showing 97 results Four questions mine for bottomless wisdom During the 15 years that Chip Scanlan taught writing workshops at the Poynter Institute, he wrote a popular column called “Chip on Your Shoulder.” Searching Poynter’s archives takes some work,… July 10, 2020 “Words are living things. They have personality, point of view, agenda.” —Mads Mikkelsen as TV character Hannibal Lecter June 16, 2020 The challenge of writing a life in two lines On May 23, 2020, (May 24 in print), the New York Times landed a daring and historic front page: A wash of overwhelming gray, which jumped to two more gray… June 10, 2020 The news joins the rituals of mourning EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is published in partnership with our friends at the Poynter InstituteI was half-way through an essay on how the experience of news — especially in the… May 28, 2020 “When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.” —Ernest Hemingway in "A Moveable Feast" May 20, 2020 How to wed personal experience and journalistic discipline Some journalistic tenets are almost sacred, among them: The story is not about us.But sometimes, the story is. Or at least the journalist is living the same story as his… April 3, 2020 What we can learn about writing and life in a graduation speech sent from a distance Do you remember your college commencement speaker, or anything s/he said? I had it in my head that a state legislator spoke at my high school graduation in 1970, but… March 26, 2020 In good writing, clarity is job one After 40-some years of practicing journalism, I decided there was much I still had to learn about the craft. So I became a teacher. Any of you who have gone… January 30, 2020 The 1619 project: Tracing steps backwards to find a way forward How a USA Today team helped a woman search her ancestral roots in Angola, home to the first Africans sold into slavery in what would become the U.S. November 26, 2019 Some warbly thoughts on “voice” Defining a writer’s “voice” has always stumped me. It came up again recently, when a journalism professor put me on speaker phone with her class of college freshmen, who had… November 22, 2019 Previous 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
