Finding a quiet voice in the center of America’s screaming immigration debate
By Trevor Pyle When Ruby Cramer of The Washington Post drove up to Norfolk, Mass., it was in pursuit of a story that couldn’t be more timely — or timeless. Cramer had seen local news reports about the...
View ArticleEffective editing: Get on the phone to talk through ideas and problems
EDITOR’S NOTE: For this installment in Storyboard’s occasional series on effective editing, we bring readers a conversation with an independent editor who works one-on-one with writers and has built a...
View ArticleA profile of a newspaper press becomes a requiem for an era
By Trevor Pyle Thomas Curwen is one of those newspaper veterans who has done it all. During his 40-year career at the Los Angeles Times, he’s served as an outdoors editor, a Book Review editor and a...
View ArticleEffective editing: “I’m in service of you, the writer”
EDITOR’S NOTE: For this installment in Storyboard’s occasional series on effective editing, we bring readers a conversation with an independent editor who works one-on-one with writers and has built a...
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