Search results for “writing the book” Showing 1161 results A writer who cared enough to strap in; an editor who cared enough to show up EDITOR’S NOTE: It is not unusual these days to come across yet another announcement of the death of a notable journalist. Those who came into the profession during the heady… June 14, 2019 Rethinking how we see and understand news — and who frames it If you have taken a picture and shared it with no text, or studied a news image to see if it was “real,” or wondered if “photography” is an accurate… June 7, 2019 A sex worker plunges to her death and a reporter demands to know: Who was she? Dan Barry led a team at The New York Times to uncover a name, a life history, and the sinister world of power and exploitation on 40th Road June 4, 2019 A tribute: On Herman Wouk and the incandescence of “Youngblood Hawke” The news that Herman Wouk, whose epic World War II novels kept him atop the best seller lists for much of his literary career, died May 17 at the age… May 28, 2019 What’s in a 50-year-old photo? The lingering gutwrench of the Vietnam War I remember seeing the photo for the first time.It was spring, 1968. I was 17 years old, a high school senior who would register for the draft that coming June.… May 24, 2019 Roy Peter Clark on the search for the “embedded narrative” Not long ago, I came out of a theater in Tampa, Florida, and heard someone calling my name. It was Adan Martinez, a young college student who had just performed… May 21, 2019 Reflections on the challenges and triumphs of masculinity in changing times EDITOR’S NOTE: Authentic profiles are among the most rewarding, challenging and essential of journalistic art forms, requiring an alchemy of relationship, grit and elegance. The most successful often involve a… May 17, 2019 On trial for the Ghost Ship warehouse fire: Was an accused villain miscast as the bad guy? When Elizabeth Weil thought of profiling Max Harris, one of two people facing criminal charges for Oakland’s deadly Ghost Ship fire, she figured another reporter must already be on the… May 14, 2019 How The New York Times tracked public data to produce “Killing Khashoggi” Before humans learned to write, they documented their lives through images with technologies fashioned from materials at hand. To create the renowned galleries of animals — objects of fascination, dreams… May 9, 2019 From a caress of love to a fist of fear In her 20 years traveling the world as a freelance writer, Rachel Louise Snyder has covered a hurricane in Honduras, a tsunami in Indonesia, and the forced sterilization of women… May 7, 2019 Previous 1 … 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 … 117 Next