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Narrative + investigative: tips from IRE 2012, Part 1

July 12, 2012 – 8:08 am

At last month’s Investigative Reporters & Editors conference, in Boston, hundreds of reporters attended dozens of sessions on everything from analyzing unstructured data to working with the coolest web tools and building a digital newsroom. The conference, which started in the 1970s, after a Phoenix reporter died in a car bomb while covering the mob, is usually [...]

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What we’re reading: kung-fu college, the new immortals, and life in isolation

February 16, 2012 – 12:23 pm

Reflections on Tiananmen Square 20 years on. A look at the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons today. A father rolling through an infantile old age as part of a new generation of “Immortals.” Here is a handful of narrative and narrative-ish pieces we think are worth your time, written by some of the [...]

By Andrea Pitzer | Posted in words | Also tagged Anthony Schick, Atlanta, Barry Bearak, Doug Monroe, Jonathan Gourlay, Missourian, Oliver Broudy, The Dart Society, The Morning News, The New York Times, Tin House, Utne Reader | Comments (0)

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