College Longreads Pick: ‘Raising Trey’ by Everett Cook, University of Michigan

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick comes from Everett Cook, who wrote this story for the University of Michigan’s The Michigan Daily.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 7, 2013

College Longreads Pick: ‘The Media Diet’ by Stephanie Maris, Ryerson University

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick comes from Stephanie Maris, who wrote this story for Ryerson University’s Ryerson Review of Journalism.

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Published: Jul 30, 2013

College Longreads Pick: ‘Silenced Voices’ by Tyler Jett, University of Florida

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick comes from Tyler Jett, who wrote this story for the University of Florida’s Independent Florida Alligator.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 19, 2013

College Longreads Pick: ‘Magazine Junkies,’ by Nolan Feeney, Northwestern

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick comes from Nolan Feeney of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern.

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Published: Jul 10, 2013

College Longreads Pick: ‘The Other Redskins,’ by Kelyn Soong, University of Maryland

Last February, a Washington Redskins executives said on a team talk show that 70 different high schools across the country share the NFL franchise’s controversial name. University of Maryland journalism graduate student Kelyn Soong did a little fact checking.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 2, 2013

College Longreads Pick of the Week: ‘Code Red: Struggling for Wellness in Computer Science,’ from Kyla Cheung at Columbia University

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher will be helping Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick was reported and written by Kyla Cheung at Columbia University for The Eye.

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Published: Jun 4, 2013

College Longreads Pick of the Week: ‘Freefall Into Madness,’ from Students at Fresno State

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher will be helping Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. The inaugural pick was reported and written by Fresno State journalists Sam LoProto, Damian Marquez, Angel Moreno, Jacob Rayburn, Brianna Vaccari, Liana Whitehead and their professor Mark Arax.

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Published: May 28, 2013

Students, Professors: We Want Your Best College Longreads

Throughout May and June, a new generation of reporters, writers, editors, and essayists make their way out of school and into the professional world. They come bearing clips, work samples produced for class or during an internship. Hundreds of media outlets at colleges and universities across the country publish student work, and an equal number of professors, instructors, and advisors help students report, write, and edit their best journalism. We’d like to encourage those writers to produce more and better work, and introduce these new voices to a wider audience of readers—and maybe even future employers and mentors.

Source: Longreads
Published: May 16, 2013

The Vulture Transcript: David Sedaris

So about seven years ago I wrote a story about a cat in a bad mood. And then the next fall another one. So I tried to write a few every year, but for every one that worked, there were two that didn’t. And then, obviously, I stepped it up over the past year and a half, once I got the actual deadline. I set up a few rules for myself. I didn’t want any animal to have a name. If you say that a rabbit’s name was, oh I don’t know, sometimes someone will have a cat, and you ask, “What’s your cat’s name?” And they say, “Critter!” And you think, Oh, I hate your cat. And they say, “Diane.” And you think, I like your cat.

Published: Sep 29, 2010
Length: 23 minutes (5,772 words)