Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 1040 results 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 How F. Scott Fitzgerald guided the hand and aspirations of a newspaper journalist Early in my career, while working in Minnesota as a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, I fell in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald, the city’s most famous native… June 4, 2020 A day-in-the-life profile of a grocery store during the coronavirus shutdown With a cell phone, an eye for evocative detail and 50 pages of notes, Brittny Mejia of the Los Angeles Times turned a day at a grocery store into a… June 2, 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 Journalism lives at the check-out counter The job I moved back to New Hampshire for was not Shift Supervisor at the local branch of a national drug store chain. Back in February, I folded up five… May 15, 2020 The path to excellence: Hard thinking, constant worry and “lunch-pail labor” EDITOR’S NOTE: Storyboard can’t, alas, run tributes to every fine and influential journalist or journalism educator who dies. But some tributes do more than honor an individual at his passing… May 7, 2020 Triple profile: A mountain town, a beloved newspaper, and an unlikely hero A veteran foreign correspondent finds a hero tale in a tiny California town: "A story is a story no matter where it takes place." May 6, 2020 Take small steps to tell the big story: Make free writing a daily discipline This column was originally published as an issue of Nieman Storyboard’s weekly newsletter. You can read back issues of the newsletter and subscribe here.Thoughts this week turn to the creativity… April 28, 2020 Building writing muscles — a postcard a day An award-winning sports reporter learns to relax his professional writing by penning personal notes on postcards April 28, 2020 Can deep reporting answer the ultimate coronavirus question: How will it end? One of the things that distinguishes the coronavirus outbreak from disasters that have come before is the disorienting flood of research and information. Credit — or blame — that on… April 21, 2020 Previous 1 … 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 … 104 Next
