Author Why We Need Stories ‘Without them, the stuff that happens would float around in some glob and none of it would mean anything.’ March 15, 2002 Steps for Managing Your Stories Lower your standards. Get something down. Swallow the bile that rises in your throat when you write a first draft. Print out early. Read aloud. Apply very critical standards. March 15, 2002 Structuring Stories for Meaning ‘Your character gets to the point where something changes.’ March 15, 2002 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.’ March 15, 2002 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… March 15, 2002 Documenting the Rhythms of Cuba A photographer uses digital video ‘to capture the passion and grittiness of contemporary Cuba.’ March 15, 2002 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… March 15, 2002 Examining Religious Paths Into and Out of the Middle East Through the eyes of two journalists, the lives of Christians and Jews are explored. March 15, 2002 ‘Monstrous Passions at the Core of the Human Soul…’ A journalist adroitly chronicles the catastrophes that were Mobutu’s Congo. March 15, 2002 Telling Stories on Radio, Just to Tell Them ‘Nearly all the stories are memorable, from the mundane to the miraculous.’ March 15, 2002 Previous 1 … 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 … 427 Next