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Effective editing: Get on the phone to talk through ideas and problems

Effective editing: Get on the phone to talk through ideas and problems

After a decade of editing, The Atlantic's Family Editor Julie Beck is going to apply her experience to full-time writing of her own stories

Telling True Stories

Practical craft tips on narrative nonfiction from some of America’s leading journalists By Mark Kramer and Wendy Call The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference…
Finding a quiet voice in the center of America’s screaming immigration debate

Finding a quiet voice in the center of America’s screaming immigration debate

The Washington Post's Ruby Cramer profiled a small-city selectman caught in the crossfire of fear, anger and blame over asylum seekers
13 ways to consider an interview

13 ways to consider an interview

A magazine writer and editor shares real-life lessons from 50 years of interviewing: It's not a conversation and you are not a supplicant
Pygmy nuthatches, fountain pens, yellowed clips and time ahead

Pygmy nuthatches, fountain pens, yellowed clips and time ahead

The editor muses on the unknowable 'what's next' for her writing and teaching as she hands the Storyboard baton forward
A new freelance business works like a "dating app for fact-checking"

A new freelance business works like a “dating app for fact-checking”

Journalist and entrepreneur Wudan Yan launches "Factual" to match writers and publications with freelance fact-checkers to ensure accuracy
Daring to bring humor and wonder to serious subjects

Daring to bring humor and wonder to serious subjects

Tom Whipple of the Times of London celebrates the return of beavers to urban England with a "jam sandwich" structure and an inviting voice
5 shared lessons from some masters of narrative nonfiction

5 shared lessons from some masters of narrative nonfiction

A journalist starting her career turned to the older generation of "new journalists" to learn the skills and ethics of narrative
How a freelancer's story instincts landed a piece in The New York Times

How a freelancer’s story instincts landed a piece in The New York Times

Erika Hayasaki found characters, scenes and themes in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires that she couldn't set aside despite multiple rejections
How investigative master Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre

How investigative master Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre

A round-about tip, a dogged pursuit and some creative tactics made the career of a young reporter and helped end a war