Articles

Structuring Stories for Meaning

‘Your character gets to the point where something changes.’

Writing in a Personal Voice

‘Your training as journalists is a tremendous platform on which to layer or from which to develop a personal voice.’

Reporters Read From Their Narrative Articles

During the conference, there would come a time each day when writers would share their narrative writings with participants who wanted to listen. And many did. The hundreds of chairs…

Documenting the Rhythms of Cuba

A photographer uses digital video ‘to capture the passion and grittiness of contemporary Cuba.’

Journalists and historians can learn from each other.

Roughly the first 20 years of my working life I spent almost entirely as a reporter for newspapers and magazines. The last six or seven years of it I have…

Examining Religious Paths Into and Out of the Middle East

Through the eyes of two journalists, the lives of Christians and Jews are explored.

‘Monstrous Passions at the Core of the Human Soul…’

A journalist adroitly chronicles the catastrophes that were Mobutu’s Congo.

Telling Stories on Radio, Just to Tell Them

‘Nearly all the stories are memorable, from the mundane to the miraculous.’

The Immersion Experience In Historical Narrative

In terms of the narrative style, as a reporter and as a writer, your job is to immerse yourself in this world and then immerse your reader in it through…

Women Journalists Spurred Coverage of Children and Families

‘…I no longer had to approach my work as though I didn’t have children.’