Search results for “the pitch” Showing 342 results Four years of reporting follows new threads in a previously reported crime story Katia Savchuk spent a year pre-reporting before she pitched The Atavist on a nuanced story of crime and mental illness August 17, 2022 Dan Barry, baseball and the love of the (writing) game If there is such a thing as the perfect summer read, this might be it.First, it’s about baseball. Even if you’re not seduced by the sport, the writing it has… July 27, 2022 2022 Power of Narrative: The matrix of editor, reporter and story EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of five posts from the 2022 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. Read Ellen Barry on first-person narratives, Lizzie Johnson on deadline narratives, Debbie Cenziper on… May 5, 2022 So you want to write a book? Part 2: Agents, queries and timelines You’ve written that gripping long-form story, and you’re champing at the bit to get a book deal. What do you do?My own journey started with a lot of wrong turns… February 23, 2022 How to tell a good story, by Stephen Sondheim: Hummable helps It would be repetitive, at this point, to add yet one more tribute to Stephen Sondheim. For 50 years, he reigned supreme as a Broadway lyricist and mentor, giving us… November 30, 2021 The journalistic dangers of binary thinking Meet Bethany Grace Howe, above. I met her a little over 10 years ago when she came to the Missouri School of Journalism as a nontraditional graduate student. “Nontraditional” essentially… June 30, 2021 A profile of a film-score composer that soars like his music Nicholas Britell’s music has infused a lot of film and TV shows recently, from the rich aural landscape of HBO’s “The Underground Railroad” to the unexpected banger that is the… June 15, 2021 Reconstructing the tragedy of COVID from the epicenter of New York City’s outbreak One of the most heartbreaking realities of the coronavirus pandemic is particularly harsh: Patients usually die alone, separated from their loved ones with only a cellphone or iPad to say… January 7, 2021 A go-to list of how-to story craft posts from 2020 One the best things about writing, or any storytelling, as a career is also one of the worst: You’re never as good as you can get. Sourcing, research, interviewing, story… December 23, 2020 What challenged Andrea Pitzer to write what she calls her best work ever When she set out from Russian port of Murmansk on a 60-foot sailboat headed to Novaya Zemlya in August 2019, journalist Andrea Pitzer had few expectations. She hoped to visit… September 10, 2020 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 35 Next
