Search results for “writing+the+book” Showing 889 results Sports Journalists Battle for Relevancy When Washington Post sports reporter Kent Babb traveled to Oakland, Calif., to report a feature story on Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch during the summer of 2017, Babb knew… October 9, 2018 Hot Type It once seemed to take a million moving parts to put out a newspaper—a real, printed-on-paper edition of, say, The New York Times, the Herald Tribune or Le Monde.It was… October 1, 2018 Megan O’Grady, NF ’12 When I met Brit Bennett, in 2016, it was to discuss her first novel, “The Mothers,” a Baldwin-inspired tale of the friendship between two Southern California girls growing up amid… September 20, 2018 Dina Temple-Raston, NF ’14 [sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]You don’t find books; books find you. That’s what essayist Joseph Epstein told us in our writing classes… September 20, 2018 Rami Khouri, NF ’02 I first read Jeffrey Fleishman’s 2007 article about poor roof dwellers in Cairo nearly 10 years after he wrote it, while I was teaching a course at the American University… September 20, 2018 Lolly Bowean, NF ’17 In her illustrious, richly crafted book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson brilliantly shows the journey that many African-Americans embarked on during the Great Migration. But it’s another Wilkerson… September 20, 2018 Re-examining Lippmann’s Legacy Journalists are still grappling with many of the issues that defined Walter Lippmann’s extraordinary career September 20, 2018 Edward Wong, NF ’18 and Jo Thomas, NF ’71 Edward Wong, NF ’18Sometime 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 Steve Oney, NF ’82 [sidebar style=”right” head=”Nieman 80″ deck=””]More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them[/sidebar]One of the eternal struggles for journalists is between the need to belong to something bigger than themselves… September 20, 2018 Previous 1 … 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 … 89 Next
