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‘Very few writers understand that a story has an arc, not just a beginning, a middle, and an end.’

Jim CollinsThese are things I have learned from my best writers, and now I pass them on to you in 10 lessons.Voice is important, seductive, subversive and can be crucial.…
March 15, 2002

‘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

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

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…
March 15, 2002

Interviewing Sources

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

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…
March 15, 2002

Documenting the Rhythms of Cuba

A photographer uses digital video ‘to capture the passion and grittiness of contemporary Cuba.’
March 15, 2002

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…
March 15, 2002

Women Journalists Spurred Coverage of Children and Families

‘…I no longer had to approach my work as though I didn’t have children.’
March 15, 2002