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Talking About Narrative Journalism

Journalist’s Trade• September 15, 2000

Jack Hart [writing coach for The Oregonian]: We ran a narrative series last week about a basketball coach and his problems with crack cocaine. My girlfriend was at a meeting of women who were putting together an event to honor … Read more

Narrative Journalism Comes of Age

By Mark Kramer• Journalist’s Trade• September 15, 2000

Some find it hard to accept. Others embrace it. Read more

‘Narrative Writing Looked Easy.’

By Richard Read• Journalist’s Trade• September 15, 2000

It wasn’t, but with help the writer used French fries to explain Asia’s financial crisis. Read more

Howard Simons’ Legacy Lives On

By Marcia Slacum Greene• Nieman Notes• September 15, 2000

Scholarships for minority journalism students bear his name. Read more

Reading Between the Lions

By Judith Stoia• Nieman Notes• September 15, 2000

We had just finished up work on a film tracking a homeless couple over five years of their remarkable and disturbing lives. The resulting documentary won a bucketful of awards and was seen by fewer people on PBS than I … Read more

‘Basically We’re Alone. Left Up to Our Own Wits.’

By War Photographers• Visual Journalism• September 15, 2000

War photographers describe what it’s like to do their jobs. Read more

‘Just Write What Happened.’

By William F. Woo• Journalist’s Trade• September 15, 2000

Imposing a narrative structure doesn’t always work. Read more

The Perils of Growing Comfortable With Evil

By Brent Staples• Visual Journalism• September 15, 2000

The lynching of Jesse Washington, May 16, 1916, in Robinson, Texas. From the exhibition “Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.” Photo courtesy of The New-York Historical Society. April 9, 2000 The New York … Read more

The Sound You Hear Is Silence

By Morton Mintz• Opinion• June 15, 2000

When the subject is corporate immorality, nary a judgmental word is heard. Read more

Designing and Distributing the Survey

Opinion• June 15, 2000

With the help of researcher Sue Schuermann, electronic databases were examined to find news stories about corporate crimes and misconduct. These examples were individualized for inclusion in the letters that queried 124 opinion-shapers. The examples, drawn mostly from news reports in … Read more