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‘Reporting is the key to good journalism.’

Steven A. HolmesIn daily journalism, you often don’t get a lot of time. But in trying to cover the lives of ordinary people and make it news, your best friend…
March 15, 2002

Writing About Ordinary Lives

‘I wanted to move the realm of curiosity into the lives of people who had been ignored….’
March 15, 2002

Reporting Differently

How to come back with a notebook full of narrative.
March 15, 2002

Conference Participants Whose Words Appear in This Issue

Jacqui Banaszynski is the assistant managing editor/Sunday at The Seattle Times and holds the Knight chair in journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Her series, “AIDS in…
March 15, 2002

Indulging Curiosity

Talese and Michel MarriottNew York Times reporter and 2002 Nieman Fellow Michel Marriott introduced Gay Talese at the Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference. Excerpts of their comments follow:Michel Marriott: As a…
March 15, 2002

Tips for Editors

‘Pick three things and just keep working on them, keep reinforcing them.’Think of each of your reporter/writers as a one-year investment. Match the assignment to the writer, but stretch it…
March 15, 2002

Sharing the Secrets of Fine Narrative Journalism

Those who do it well explain what it is they do.
March 15, 2002

Interviewing Sources

‘The center of the onion is what you want.’
March 15, 2002

Spring 2002: Conference Introduction

Nieman Narrative Journalism ConferenceCambridge, MassachusettsNovember 30 – December 2, 2001Narrative journalism is in transition to a second phase. The first continues—the individual, dramatic phase in which lonely reporters get fascinated…
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