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Jacqui Banaszynski

@JacquiB

Jacqui Banaszynski retired as the endowed Knight Chair in Editing at the Missouri School of Journalism in 2017, is editor at Nieman Storyboard, and a faculty fellow at the Poynter Institute. She won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for “AIDS in the Heartland,” a series about a gay farm couple facing AIDS, and was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer in international reporting for her account of the sub-Saharan famine.

The Newsroom Is Dead. Long Live the Newsroom!

The Newsroom Is Dead. Long Live the Newsroom!

Covid has forced true change, much of it long overdue. Now journalists — editors and reporters alike — must resist the temptation to return to pre-pandemic rhythms
May 10, 2021

New Metaphors Needed for Changing Roles

‘It is time for some new language to describe the role and value of the assigning editor. Even the job title is dated and limiting.’
March 15, 2006

‘Don’t try to squeeze the dress of narrative over the wrong form.’

David Fanning talks about finding the story in TV documentary.Learn the rules and the conventions of your craft so you can break them. That’s how you wing walk. That’s how…
March 15, 2002

‘Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.’

Tim O’Brien had the bad fortune to be caught up in the Vietnam War, and he’s written about it several times, and he wrote a book called “The Things They…
March 15, 2002

Editors and Reporters

‘Quite frankly, we need each other.’
March 15, 2002

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