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Lessons in the purpose of poetic language from a presidential inauguration

Lessons in the purpose of poetic language from a presidential inauguration

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of two posts today analyzing the power of the presidential inaugural poem delivered Jan. 20, 2020, by Amanda Gorman, and reflecting on its place in…
Fifty years of Robert Caro's reporting notes going public

Fifty years of Robert Caro’s reporting notes going public

Oh, to study those yellowed pages, with words pecked by a typewriter, then crossed out and scribbled over and typed on more pages. To marvel at those scrapbooks — more…
Reconstructing the tragedy of COVID from the epicenter of New York City's outbreak

Reconstructing the tragedy of COVID from the epicenter of New York City’s outbreak

Zooming in on a hard-hit corner of multi-cultural Queens, Dan Barry, Annie Correal and a New York Times team dared to get close and gain trust
Passports to authentic reporting: a foreign view, and a view through empathy

Passports to authentic reporting: a foreign view, and a view through empathy

At the end of this, a year that defies easy summary, we abandon attempts to try. Instead, here are two bits of lagniappe that came our way and we pass…
A very few of my favorite fiction reads of 2020

A very few of my favorite fiction reads of 2020

It was a year of great journalism about hard things — and fiction that soothed along the way
How a top LinkedIn journalist quit with no what's-next ideas, then woke up to a big one

How a top LinkedIn journalist quit with no what’s-next ideas, then woke up to a big one

The Pivot: Novice podcaster Isabelle Roughol on the love of journalism that "lets you enter infinite worlds"
A profile of police victim George Floyd also explored the health toll of racism

A profile of police victim George Floyd also explored the health toll of racism

A Washington Post series examined facets of systemic racism, and revealed aspects of Floyd's life story that raise deeper societal questions
A profile of one place that echoes all places

A profile of one place that echoes all places

How evocative imagery and telling details paint a portrait of a singular landscape that holds universal emotions and memories
E Pluribus Unnerved

E Pluribus Unnerved

—A fleeting headline on an Election Day story by the New York Times
What happened when a journalist tracked the origins of the rape evidence kit

What happened when a journalist tracked the origins of the rape evidence kit

Most stories about female inventors simply congratulate women for being as capable as men. But Pagan Kennedy, author, podcast producer and New York Times columnist, thinks we need to move…