November 20, 2012 – 10:10 am
Four years ago, I began looking into the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was put to death by the state of Texas in 2004. Willingham had been convicted of murdering his three children in 1991 after they died in a house fire; prosecutors argued that Willingham, who had managed to escape, had actually set [...]
November 6, 2012 – 10:06 am
Why hasn’t anybody Hunter S. Thompsonized this election? Or have they, and we missed it? Esquire’s Charlie Pierce approacheth – In the interest of keeping you abreast of news that hasn’t happened yet, I would like to introduce you to what the intellectuals in the employ of the Glenn Beck Empire will be saying on [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Byliner, Charlie Pierce, Columbia Journalism Review, Esquire, GQ, Hunter S. Thompson, Jill Lepore, Joe McGinniss, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Roger Ailes, Rolling Stone, Saul Bellow, the New York Mirror, Vanity Fair
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September 20, 2012 – 8:35 am
Every narrative journalist can point to a story or a book, or two, that changed their lives, and that made them want to tell true stories. What story does it for you? Where was your love born? When we asked about influential writing via Twitter, answers came in a flurry. Wright Thompson said North Toward Home, [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Aaron Latham, Adam Davidson, Alex Tizon, Alice Steinbach, Alison Smith, Andrew Pantazi, Anne Lamott, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara Myerhoff, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, Clive Thompson, Cornelius Ryan Award, Darcy Frey, David Foster Wallace, David Von Drehle, Deborah Baker, Des Moines Register, Diane Shipley, Dinty Moore, Edwidge Danticat, ESPN, Gay Talese, Gene Weingarten, George Orwell, Harold Ross, Harper's, Ian Frazier, Jacqui Banaszynski, James Baldwin, Jane Kramer, Janet Malcolm, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Jeff Sharlet, Jimmy Breslin, Jo Ann Beard, Joan Didion, Joe Sacco, John Carey, John Hersey, John McPhee, Jordan Conn, Joseph Mitchell, Julia Sommerfeld, Karen K. Ho, Katherine Boo, Kelley Benham, Ken Fuson, KillingtheBuddha.com, Larry L. King, Lê Thi Diem Thúy, Lillian Ross, Louisa May Alcott, Luke Dittrich, Madeleine Blais, Mara Grunbaum, Mark Bowden, Mark Kramer, Mary McCarthy, Melissa Faye Green, Michael Herr, Michael Lesy, Mother Jones, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Nick Paumgarten, Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nora Ephron, Norman Mailer, Overseas Press Club Award, Philip Weiss, Pulitzer Prize, Rachel Signer, Randy Shilts, Rebecca Skloot, Rob Boynton, Rolling Stone, Ron Rosenbaum, Rosemary Mahoney, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Sebastian Junger, Susan Orlean, Tampa Bay Times, Ted Conover, The Atlantic, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, The New Yorker, The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, Tim O'Brien, Timothy B. Tyson, Tobias Wolff, Tom Junod, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Vanity Fair, Walt Whitman, Wendy Call, Will Hobson, William Browning, Willie Morris, Wired, Wright Thompson, Zoe Heller
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September 7, 2012 – 11:14 am
The first week of fall term ends today at Harvard, and the Nieman Foundation’s newest class of fellows is settling in. The Nieman fellowship, which next year will celebrate its 75th anniversary, brings together 12 U.S. and 12 international journalists for one year of study across the university. Fellows pursue the topics of their choice, [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Alexandra Garcia, Ann Marie Lipinski, Atsuko Chiba, Barry Bingham Jr., Beauregard Tromp, Best Food Writing, Betsy O'Donovan, Blair Kamin, blogosin.org, Borja Echevarría de la Gándara, Brett Anderson, Carroll Binder, Chong-ae Lee, Chris Arnold, Cooperativa, David Abel, Der Spiegel, Don van Natta, Donald W. Reynolds, e-news Africa, Edward R. Murrow, El País, Emphas.is, ESPN, Finbarr O'Reilly, Food & Wine, Global Entrepreneur magazine, Gourmet, Homicide Watch, Huy Duc, Independent Newspapers, James Beard Award, Jane Spencer, Jane's Defence Weekly, Jeneen Interlandi, Jennifer B. McDonald, Jin Deng, Karim Ben Khelifa, Katrin Bennhold, Laura Norton Amico, Laura Wides-Munoz, Le Monde, Liberation.fr, Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, Ludovic Blecher, Mary Beth Sheridan, Medford Mail-Tribune, Newsweek, Nieman Fellows, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation, NPR, Paula Molina, Reuters, Robert Waldo Ruhl, Ruth Cowan Nash, Salon, San Truong, Scientific American, Seoul Broadcasting System, Souad Mekhennet, Southern Weekly, Stern, The Associated Press, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Daily News, the Committee to Protect Journalists, The Daily Beast, the Durham Herald-Sun, The Economic Observer, the International Herald Tribune, the Jerusalem Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Oxford American, the Pulitzer Prize, the Saigon Economic Times, The Times-Picayune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, Tuoi Tre, Vanity Fair, Walter Lippmann, William Montalbano, Yaakov Katz, ZDF
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When Buzz Bissinger visited the Nieman Foundation last week, in some ways he was coming home. Twenty-six years ago, he finished his Nieman year inspired to do new and different work. He’d made his career in newspapers, most recently at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he, Rick Tulsky and Dan Biddle, also former Niemans, had just written [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative speaker series
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Also tagged A Prayer for the City, Ann Marie Lipinski, Buzz Bissinger, Dan Biddle, Ed Rendell, Father's Day, Friday Night Lights, Gerry Bissinger, LeBron James, Madeleine Blais, Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation, Pulitzer Prize, Rick Tulsky, the Milwaukee Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Three Nights in August, Walter Lippmann House, Zach Bissinger
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September 29, 2011 – 6:59 pm
Our second Roundtable of September examines “The Good Short Life,” by Dudley Clendinen. Diagnosed with ALS, Clendinen reflects on the past suffering of those closest to him and decides that he would prefer to approach death on his own terms, ending his life at a moment of his choosing. His essay ran July 9 in the New [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in editors' roundtable
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Also tagged Charles Dickens, Chip Scanlon, Dudley Clendinen, Jack Fuller, Laurie Hertzel, Maria Carrillo, NPR, Paige Williams, The New York Times, Tom Huang, William Faulkner
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