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Writing a Life, Living a Writer’s Life

‘At one point, my mother, a woman who is anything but acid, told me: “Get a job, and get a life.” She said this out of love and concern because…

Writing About People You Know

‘In community journalism, there is no place to hide, and if you want to hide, then you have no business in this business anyway.’

Figuring Out What a 21st Century Book Can Be

When an author’s insistence on publishing under a Creative Commons license met resistance from book publishers, he decided to self-publish his book with Lulu.

Gay Talese: On What Endures in Sports Writing Amid Change

Early in October Gay Talese came to the Boston Athenaeum to celebrate publication of “The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese.” In this collection of…

Books From the Beat: A More Complicated Equation

Judy Pasternak, a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times, drew on expertise she developed covering the environment, science and other beats to write her first book. “Yellow Dirt: An…

Engaging Youth in Social Media: Is Facebook the New Media Frontier?

A research project creates experimental applications for Facebook to learn whether the news habit can be fostered online and lead to civic engagement.

The Ties That Bind: Newspapers and Nonfiction Books

What reporters do in their daily reporting can become the foundation for compelling storytelling in a book. So what happens when newsrooms shrink and support for long-term beat assignments dries…

‘A Voice, a Brain, and a Notebook’

Bloggers have taken up where I.F. Stone left off, and journalists shouldn't be far behind.

Demonstrating the Craft of Writing

A book ‘grounds the reader in practical improvement by presenting 50 sharp, focused “tools.”’

Foreign Reporting: Adding Layers to What Goes in the Notebook

Using the tools of digital media, a reporter and photojournalist create a narrative multimedia account of what's happening in Afghanistan.