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Notable Narrative: Ben Goldfarb and “The Deliciously Fishy Case Of The...
Ben Goldfarb has found a niche in fish. A freelancer based in New Haven, Conn., he regularly covers commercial fisheries and wildlife conservation for magazines such as Science and Boston Magazine....
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A darkness runs through it: a journalist gunned down, a small town’s secrets
A darkness runs through this week’s post. Most disturbing is the interview with yet another Mexican journalist who was later gunned down for being brave enough to write about the vicious cartels there....
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5(ish) Questions: Phoebe Zerwick and “The Last Days of Darryl Hunt”
On her first weekend at The Winston-Salem Journal in 1987, Phoebe Zerwick’s new coworkers took her to a famous crime scene: the place where a man named Darryl Hunt had allegedly raped and murdered a...
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Frank Deford died this week, and I’m not sure sportswriters will see his like again. The beautiful rhythm of his language was some kind of wonderful. I love this bit from The New York Times obit of...
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5(ish) Questions: Dana Priest and the “terrorism industrial complex” post 9/11
As a college sophomore in 2005, I read Dana Priest’s report about “black sites” –far-flung secret prisons overseas that the CIA used to house terrorist suspects captured from the battlefields. One in...
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Think it’s a new thing, journalists being called enemies of the people? Read on
Two journalist heroes are featured in this week’s posts. One of them, literary sportswriter Frank Deford, died this week, and I’m not sure we’ll see his like again. Read the One Great Sentence below...
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In Arab world, an ancient tradition of oral storytelling gets a 21st century...
Thirteen-year-old Simav Wooleh took the stage with a disarming smile in front of the audience gathered in a Beirut café. If she was nervous, the only thing that betrayed her was a tendency to fidget...
View Article“It’s a little facile, maybe, and certainly hard to implement, but I’d say,...
Why is it great? It’s graduation season, so it seemed like a perfect time to revisit this beautiful commencement speech that the writer George Saunders gave at Syracuse University four years ago. It...
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5 Questions: Talal Ansari and “Welcome to America: Now Spy on Your Friends”
BuzzFeed News reporter Talal Ansari was interested in lists—not listicles. We see them all the time now when it comes to immigration policy. In January, President Trump listed seven Muslim-majority...
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“The charm and the pain and the humanity”— what great storytelling is all about
A quote in one of this week’s posts has stuck in my mind. It’s by a former journalist who started a live-storytelling group in Beirut. What she says applies to that form of oral storytelling, but also...
View ArticleAnnotation Tuesday! Mac McClelland and “Delusion Is the Thing With Feathers”
Mac McClelland is no stranger to risk and discomfort: This is a woman who has reported on rape in Haiti’s tent cities and genocide in Myanmar. But she didn’t expect to fear for her life when she set...
View Article“The great mistake is to live in Mexico and to be a journalist.”
Tomorrow, Storyboard and its sister Nieman Foundation outlets, Nieman Lab and Nieman Reports, will join journalists and writers the world over to honor the incredibly brave Mexican journalist Javier...
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Honoring Mexican journalist Javier Valdez: Today, and always, our voice is...
One month ago today, an assassin fired 12 bullets at Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas as he drove away from the office of Ríodoce, where he had long filed some of the most searing journalism...
View ArticleNow’s a good time to read some highlights of the global effort to honor...
Today, journalists around the world came together to honor slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas on the one-month anniversary of his assassination. The global campaign, known as “Our voice is...
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The lunacy and the sorrow: journalists capturing the sweep of our lives
This week’s posts captured the lunacy and sorrow of life. In the former, writer Mac McClelland talks about her hilariously awful expedition with extreme birders (yes, there is such a thing) for Audubon...
View ArticleNotable Narrative: Susan Dominus and “Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?”
When Susan Dominus set out to write a story about relationships and romance for The New York Times Magazine, her initial assignment had her talking to couples who have experienced, and recovered from,...
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Why is it great? Tom Stoppard is one of our greatest wordsmiths, wildly intelligent and witty, while still revealing the pathos of his characters. This line is a perfect example of his genius. It uses...
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5(ish) Questions: Bonnie Ford and “The Promise Rio Couldn’t Keep”
The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics offered a host of memorable storylines: 28-time medal winner Michael Phelps’ final race, Ryan Lochte’s bizarre fabrication of a gunpoint robbery, and the “will...
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It’s officially summer: Don’t forget to take some great reads along to the beach
This week I celebrated the summer solstice watching a fiddle band atop a hill with sweeping views of the Maine coast and hillsides as the sun slowly lowered into a purple sunset. What did you do to...
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Notable Narrative: Jason Fagone and “What Bullets Do to Bodies”
Gun violence is one of America’s most pervasive, polarizing issues, and journalism has responded with thousands of articles tackling the subject, including a raft of forgettable think pieces, trend...
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