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"Why's This So Good?" No. 101: Ida Tarbell and "The History of The Standard Oil Company"

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 101: Ida Tarbell and “The History of The Standard Oil Company”

I’ve been grappling with what made Ida Tarbell so good since about 1983, when I was appointed executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). I felt I needed to…
May 3, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Jesse Katz goes “Inside the San Quentin Marathon”

Annotation Tuesday! Jesse Katz goes “Inside the San Quentin Marathon”

For many of his 30-plus years in the journalism business, Jesse Katz has been covering crime. Back in the early 1990s, his former employer The Los Angeles Times assigned him…
April 26, 2016

Susan Orlean: “My method of reporting is just to be there”

Susan Orlean is storied for her stories. Since 1992 she’s been a staff writer at The New Yorker, and her 1998 book “The Orchid Thief” was made into the movie…
April 22, 2016

The 2016 Pulitzers: A Storytelling Treasure Trove

Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker has pulled off a rare double, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing after having earlier won the National Magazine Award in the same category.…
April 18, 2016
"Power of Narrative" Conference: Mary Roach's bad habits

“Power of Narrative” Conference: Mary Roach’s bad habits

Mary Roach doesn’t do her homework. She didn’t go to J-school. By her own admission, she’s never quite sure she knows what she’s doing.“I always have the sense that I’m…
April 8, 2016

Esquire Classic: Colum McCann, Bitcoin and the Winklevoss twins

The last time most of us heard of the Winklevoss twins—hell, the first time we heard of them—was in David Fincher’s acerbic 2010 movie, The Social Network. You remember: Tyler…
March 30, 2016
Journalism and Art: Complementary and Collaborative Storytelling

Journalism and Art: Complementary and Collaborative Storytelling

As journalists use art to bring stories off the page, artists adopt reporting techniques to address social issues
March 28, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe on “The life and times of Strider Wolf”

Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe on “The life and times of Strider Wolf”

Sarah Schweitzer has spent almost two decades honing her narrative instincts at The Boston Globe and the St. Petersburg Times. In April 2015 she was acknowledged by the Pulitzer Prize…
March 14, 2016

When journalists follow the money, it can lead to great stories

The audacious claim by the government of Bangladesh that hackers spoofed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York into giving them tens of millions of Bangladesh’s dollars has us salivating…
March 14, 2016

Why’s This So Bad? Confirmation Bias and Failed Narratives

There’s a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s scathing journalism send-up “Scoop” where Wenlock Jakes, the world-beating American reporter (based on John Gunther of the old Chicago Daily News), is sent to the…
March 11, 2016