Comments on: Gay Talese at Boston University narrative conference: “I don’t want something juicy; I want the closest I can get to the truth”

By: Robert Caro, Stacy Schiff, Diane Ackerman and more: narrative conferences and workshops in 2011 – Nieman Storyboard - A project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:04:00 +0000

[...] Boston. Speakers TBA. Last year’s group included New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, Gay Talese and Adam Hochschild, among other [...]

By: Danielle Flood

Danielle Flood — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:06:23 +0000

So glad to hear Gay Talese, a worthy journalism icon, opt for the truth rather than taking the juicy quote and running. Reminds me of Sam Freedman’s bidding in his book, Letters to a Young Journalist, to making interviewing, especially depth interviewing a conversation. That kind of digging in a conversational interview that lasted years with some sources in my recently completed can only yield the kind of material that gives one a digested feeling.

By: New York Times editor Bill Keller on the future of narrative journalism (and three “threats” to it he doesn’t buy) – Nieman Storyboard - A project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:30:07 +0000

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