Esquire writer at large Chris Jones came to the Nieman Foundation two weeks ago as part of the Narrative Writing speakers series I started at the foundation last year, and spent a couple of hours talking about craft. Jones began his career as a sportswriter for the National Post in Toronto, where he covered boxing, which became [...]
Tag Archives: Peter Griffin
Chris Jones on reporting for detail, the case against outlining and the power of donuts
December 1, 2011 – 12:11 pm
Esquire‘s Peter Griffin on editing “The End of Mystery”
September 11, 2009 – 5:09 pm
Excerpts from a September 2009 interview with Peter Griffin, deputy editor of Esquire, about an August story on a helicopter crash off the coast of Newfoundland: Can you talk a little about your role in Chris Jones’ “The End of Mystery”? This story was almost entirely Chris’s. He lives in Ottawa, and the crash of the [...]
