Tag: journalism

Consider this your reading list for the next few weeks.

The pieces we didn’t get to — until now.

The profiles that left us reeling.

The deep dives that left us gasping for air.

The journalism that made our jaws drop.

The longtime writer at Denver’s 5280 magazine talks about City Reads, the stellar work published by fellow journalists, and the intimate experience of reading thousands of solidarity letters mailed from across the country, demanding justice for Elijah McClain.

The writer describes her process of reporting and shaping her recent essay, “The State of Waiting,” which explores love in the shadow of war and immigration policy.

The full story behind the scoop to interview Princess Diana has remained hidden for a quarter of a century — until now.

How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.

“’I think if the town survives, the newspaper will survive. I think we’re so intertwined. It’s not going to be one without the other. Our fates are going to be the same.'”

Our top picks for investigative journalism this year.

Has the U.S. government already betrayed the activists seeking regime change in North Korea?

“If we do not know what our government is doing, we cannot hold it accountable. If we do know, our enemies know too. That can be dangerous.”

“Sing Sing was going into quarantine. Our movement was limited. No gym. Hospital and commissary runs limited to groups of ten. Staggered seating in the mess hall.”

“We were interested in dead girls, but so interested in them that we were trying to do the opposite of what had been done before.” 

Pivoting to video is only one of many ways media workers lose their jobs, but it’s still a horrible way.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.

California native Katya Cengel contemplates whether living in Ukraine prepared her for life in the South.

The New Yorker writer describes his career’s circuitous route, from his start as a struggling fiction writer to becoming a China correspondent, and now the author of a new book about the Arab Spring.

Nell Zink, Joy Williams, and a different kind of climate skepticism.

Writing about the culture and beauty of the Mississippi Delta requires seeing the mighty river as more than a line of water.

General readers won’t have heard of their publications, but Washington D.C.’s trade press cater to specialist readers who pay top dollar for the beats they cover.

Journalism’s one percent would rather make up a fake feud than address the reality of the industry’s pay disparity, which benefits them and no one else.

A journalist who reported on the accusations long before they went viral wonders, “What kind of profession am I in, where stories have no logical reason for unfolding?”

Today’s public intellectuals have their own version of the American Dream, where one person, on their own, can achieve anything — including being the smartest person in the room.

“Somewhere along the way it became very clear to me that I was writing the book she never would.”

Journalism now is a lot more fear and insecurity and a lot less corduroy and Robert Redford, but you’d never know it from what is projected.

Your systems will not protect you.

“We, as family, got so much from their trash. I never wanted to forget that I was the janitor’s kid before I was anything else.”

At 63, Michael Musto reveals how he keeps managing to add new chapters to the consistently unfolding story of his career.