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Annotation Tuesday! Antonio Regalado and liquid biopsies
In August 2014 Antonio Regalado introduced an almost heretical approach to cancer treatment to the wider world in a feature he wrote for MIT Technology Review. Regalado, the senior biomedicine editor...
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Esquire Classic: Mike Sager’s country includes old men
Back in 1998, magazine writer Mike Sager was best known for his fearless profiles of drug dealers, crackheads, porn stars, and neo-Nazis. But that year Esquire handed him a very different kind of...
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“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 skating on thin ice,” she says...
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Annotation Tuesday! Jill Lepore and “The Prodigal Daughter”
Jill Lepore is both a historian at Harvard — the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, to be precise — and since 2005 a staff writer at The New Yorker, to which...
View ArticleThe 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. Her story on a...
View ArticleSusan 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 Adaptation. She’s written seven other books...
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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 to the gang beat, and it’s...
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“Power of Narrative” conference: Nikole Hannah-Jones on difficult topics
Two years ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones published “Segregation Now,” a collaboration between her then-employer Pro Publica and The Atlantic, about the desegregation and resegregation of Tuscaloosa, Alabama....
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Farah Stockman: “I’m not going to write about them like they’re failures”
Farah Stockman Essdras Suarez Farah Stockman came to journalism while teaching street children in Kenya. She worked as a freelancer in Nairobi for The New York Times, NPR and The Christian Science...
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“Why’s This So Good?” No. 101: Ida Tarbell and “The History of The Standard...
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 read her 1905 classic,...
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The Power of Oral History as Journalism
“I think I started every interview with: Tell me how you met Bill Cosby.” Noreen Malone, a senior editor at New York magazine, didn’t plan the question ahead of time. As she set out to interview the 35...
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From Esquire Classic: Tom Junod on “Missing”
Tiffany Whitton was last seen on video surveillance footage from a Marietta, Georgia, Walmart one night in September 2013. The video shows the twenty-six-year-old woman intoxicated and shoplifting;...
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“Shoot the picture. Don’t shoot the picture.”
Friday, May 1, 1970 "Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul" by Clara Bingham (Random House) BOB GILES (Akron Beacon...
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5 Questions with: Ben Montgomery on Michael Brick and “Everyone Leaves Behind...
Perhaps as much as any modern journalist, Michael Brick brought the style of Ben Hecht’s “A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago” into the 21st century newsroom. Hecht made the ordinary outstanding,...
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“Why’s This So Good?” No. 102: Michael Brick and “A Hipster Quits Williamsburg”
This is the first of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who loved his work....
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“Why’s This So Good?” No. 103: Michael Brick and “Dusk of the Drummer”
This is the second of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who loved his work....
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“Why’s This So Good?” No. 104: Michael Brick and an ordinary legal dispute
This is the third of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who loved his work....
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A letter of introduction: On loving literary journalism (plus music, Maine...
Kari Howard I’m Kari Howard, the new editor of Storyboard, and I’m writing to you from a Maine farmhouse, where possibly the biggest lilac bush in Waldo County is in full bloom. In the space of just...
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“Why’s This So Good?” No. 105a: Michael Brick and Where Summer Slides Down...
This is the fourth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who loved his work....
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“Why’s This So Good?” No. 105b: Michael Brick and Finding Shade in a Legend’s...
This is the fifth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who loved his work....
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