Articles Georg Diez, NF ’17 It wasn’t the best time of my life, and then again it was, in the way that you realize only later, after it is over. I was sitting in a smelly… September 20, 2018 Emily O’Reilly, NF ’88 At first glance, “Lost Lives,” this extended piece of journalism in book form, looks like a simple list of names with some brief notes attached to each entry, but to me it is… September 20, 2018 Robert H. Giles, NF ’66 As World War II stretched into 1944, it became part of the daily ritual in our household on Cleveland’s west side to keep up with the war news in the town’s… September 20, 2018 Ray Jenkins, NF ’65 The 31,000-word article filled the entire Aug. 31, 1946 issue of The New Yorker magazine—the first anniversary of the detonation of the first atomic bomb at the close of World War II.… September 20, 2018 Christopher Weyant, NF ’16 It was the mid-1980s when I read my first Pat Oliphant cartoon. I was a teenager prowling around in the back of a dusty used bookstore searching for cartoons. Sandwiched… September 20, 2018 Clarence Jones, NF ’64 As a newspaper reporter, I looked down my nose at TV “talent” who called themselves journalists. My colleagues and I thought TV reporters were hired for their looks and their… September 20, 2018 Stan Grossfeld, NF ’92 I can close my eyes and still see the classic W. Eugene Smith portrait of the mother bathing her daughter who was deformed by mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan. It… September 20, 2018 Claudia Méndez Arriaza, NF ’12 When I read “Murder Comes for the Bishop” by Francisco Goldman, I was 22 and in my first year as a journalist. The criminal investigation and the trial following the… September 20, 2018 Edward Wong, NF ’18 and Jo Thomas, NF ’71 Edward Wong, NF ’18 Sometime in my 20s, when I was starting out as a reporter, I read two collections of Joan Didion’s early articles and essays. They changed the way… September 20, 2018 Alex S. Jones, NF ’82 It was the mid-’60s and I was in college and a guy I had never heard of—an alumnus of my college [Washington and Lee University] as it happened—was coming to… September 20, 2018 Previous 1 … 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 … 436 Next
