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‘The desire to have the best—or most salable—story must never undermine our responsibility to challenge even our most compelling material.’

Paul Lieberman, whose newspaper series is being adapted into the film “Gangster Squad,” offers tips—and cautions—for journalists when film or TV folks are interested in a story you have reported.…

This story is ‘about how the worlds of journalism and fiction writing are not as unimaginably different as one might think.’

In ‘Storycraft’ Jack Hart ‘reveals the story behind the stories.’

Several journalists have participated in Michele Weldon’s Writing to Save Your Life memoir writing workshops during the past decade. While she finds that journalists are at an advantage because of…

‘… it would be a while before people would say, “Hey, this is a book.” ’

‘I have come to realize that my obsessive precision—a great virtue in a reporter—wasn’t necessarily the greatest quality in a would-be memoirist.’

‘It is difficult to do justice to the complexities of Zimbabwe’s story while still grabbing and sustaining readers’ interest when so much of what reporters hear is depressing.’

When a Philippine investigative journalist revealed the inner workings of her nation’s Supreme Court, the country’s largest book publisher and leading distributor walked away.

‘Does the Kindle allow the visual even more dominance over the other senses in the act of reading?’