Search results for “writing the book” Showing 1148 results How Memorial Day memories become today’s stories The Memorial Day weekend caught me by surprise. After 16 months of no travel, and a schedule dictated only by this weekly newsletter, I lost the daily rhythm of showing… May 31, 2021 How lessons from past stories can inform future stories My morning NPR ritual recently brought back two major landmarks in my journalism career this past week. May 18 was both the 41st anniversary of the eruption of Mount St.… May 26, 2021 Embedding with EMTs to write about the first line of COVID first responders Ava Kofman of ProPublica blended contextual and records reporting with intimate narrative interviews and observation May 21, 2021 How narrative moments can elevate a non-narrative story Little gems of character, dialogue, description and scene make a complex explanatory piece more compelling May 11, 2021 From city hall scoops to breaking news to profiles to narratives Lizzie Johnson’s work covering the deadly wildfires that have scorched California in recent years has earned a place in these posts in the past. Most notable was an annotation of… May 6, 2021 A narrative on the political divide reported from the inside-out Jose A. Del Real of The Washington Post uses phone, email and texts to profile a family torn apart by conflicting beliefs in "facts" April 20, 2021 Two anti-racist scholars and writers take on the cultural limits of “objectivity” In a final conversation at The Power of Narrative conference, Jelani Cobb and Ibram X. Kendi argue that narrative should be used to convey fuller truths April 7, 2021 Shout-out to 2021 News Leaders Association winners Congratulations to winners of the 2021 NLA Awards, announced this week by the News Leaders Association (the merger of the former American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Associated Press… April 6, 2021 The power and purpose of a writer’s voice The founding director of the BU Power of Narrative conference details the most important step you can take towards narrative journalism March 30, 2021 How covering prep sports in retirement led to a spot on “60 Minutes” You love the games and the writing and become a sports journalist. You devote a career to that passion and the craft, writing for some of the best mastheads in… March 26, 2021 Previous 1 … 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 … 115 Next
