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Scenes, Suspense and Character

‘Everything really boils down to one or another of those three things.’

‘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…

Writing About Ordinary Lives

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

Reporting Differently

How to come back with a notebook full of narrative.

A Bunch of Tips for Reporters

‘You can break the action at times and give us background.’Say you’re writing about the Little League team winning the Little League World Series and you’re doing a narrative. That’s…

Why We Need Stories

‘Without them, the stuff that happens would float around in some glob and none of it would mean anything.’

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…

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…

Women Journalists Spurred Coverage of Children and Families

‘…I no longer had to approach my work as though I didn’t have children.’

Dangers Lie Beneath the Promise of the Internet

By using Web technology to tailor the news a user receives, does democracy suffer?