Search results for “writing the book” Showing 896 results Heart of Darkness Right about the time that my late husband was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, I started obsessing on vampire novels. There I was, sitting by my husband’s bedside, pondering mortality,… July 17, 2014 Ben Smith: The Complete Transcript When Ben Smith joined BuzzFeed as editor in chief in 2012, the site was better known for cute cat videos and fun lists than for serious journalism. Over the past… July 17, 2014 Form Follows Function Form follows function. Just what that axiom means, applied to journalism, was revealed to me by a man named Carl Newton, city editor of The Atlanta Journal when I arrived… July 15, 2014 Hurricane Katrina, Civil Rights, and Ben Franklin’s Sister, Jane On May 13, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project awards were presented to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Harvard history professor Jill Lepore, and Adrienne Berard, a 2013 graduate of… June 3, 2014 A Day When Nothing Dramatic Happened Our Nieman class, arriving in the fall of 2006, had a contingent of journalists who came to leafy, placid Cambridge from covering Iraq and Afghanistan.For them, the year was in… April 7, 2014 Parsing Politics in China, Egypt, and an Orthodox Jewish Community Harvard law professor Noah Feldman spoke to the 2014 Nieman Fellows about the intense scrutiny and criticism he faced after writing about his work in Tunisia and writing a personal… February 24, 2014 Master of the Craft At the Nieman Foundation’s 75th anniversary reunion, Robert A. Caro discussed the art of political biography with fellow Nieman Anne Hull February 19, 2014 Command and Control The state of journalism in China, 25 years after Tiananmen February 18, 2014 Evan Osnos: The Challenges of Covering China Evan Osnos, who covered China for eight years with the Chicago Tribune and The New Yorker, spoke about the difficulty of covering modern China in the 2013 Joe Alex Morris… February 12, 2014 Clear and Present Danger The NSA, surveillance and the threat to press freedom February 10, 2014 Previous 1 … 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 … 90 Next