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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
October with OWrite
Energized from a few weeks of R&R, the O's writers' group returns for Rocktober! Join us Mondays at 9 in the old news conference room. It'll be worth your time. Plus: Free Coffee and Baked Goods.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Writing with authority, some Hallman snippets
Tom Hallman will be joining us Monday to talk a bit about writing with authority. Here are a few recent examples of Tom's ability to, in a sentence or a few paragraphs, sum up why a story is a story.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Resuming 14 July
Check out the post below for the story we'll discuss next Monday at 9 a.m. in the old newsroom conference room. See you then .
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Earl Swift, my hero
Probably one of the best newspaper writers in America who you've never heard of. Come ready to chew into this one on Monday. By Earl Swift of the Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
A Thank-You for 18 Million Cracks in the Glass Ceiling
During the campaign, it was her opponent who owned the lofty rhetoric. But on the day she finally conceded defeat, it was Hillary Clinton's words that soared.
Why Tomatoes Hate America, by Dana Milbank
The tomatoes attacked us brutally and without warning. Yesterday, our leaders struck back against the pernicious produce.
Friday, June 13, 2008
For Monday 16 June ...
Monday, May 19, 2008
Nikole and bling, etc
Nikole Hannah-Jones led a tremendous discussion about race and journalism in our group. We talked about her Jammin' 95 story and how it made it into the paper. Excellent.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Updating agenda for 19 May
Nikole Hannah-Jones will be joining us for a conversation about her Jammin' 95 story in the HOW WE LIVE section today -- voice, perspective, meaning, etc. If there's time, we'll get around to the Hennessey-Fiske story from the LA Times (see previous post). If not, we'll slip it over to the next week. Nikole's piece below:
Shaping a story
Yet another excellent conversation this morning first with Esme about her crime and immigration story, then (with Gosia leading) about Kapuscinski. Truth or not true? No, B. Johnson says: better to weigh it as valuable or not valuable. ...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Adam Hochschild on Kapuscinski's Magic Journalism
In his book on the fall of the Soviet Union, Ryszard Kapuscinski describes a visit he took to Armenia in 1990 to report on the worst of the many conflicts that erupted as the empire crumbled. The USSR was still officially one country, but Armenia and Azerbaijan were unofficially at war over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is inhabited largely by Armenians. The Soviets were attempting unsuccessfully to suppress the bitter guerrilla fighting there. Among other things, they were trying to keep inquisitive foreign journalists like Kapuscinski out of the besieged territory, which lies entirely within Azerbaijan, and can be reached from Armenia only by air.The Soviets control the airports at both ends. How can Kapuscinski get there? (...) GET HARD COPIES FROM ANNE SAKER
Ryszard Kapuscinski's Shadow of the Sun
More than anything, one is struck by the light. Twilight everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. Just yesterday, an autumnal London was drenched in rain. The airplane drenched in rain. A cold wind, darkness. But here, from the morning's earliest moments, the airport is ablaze with sunlight, all of us in sunlight.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Dan Barry's magic
Yet another excellent discussion this morning on Dan Barry's 21 April reader in the NYT. This is a writer who doesn't really worry about readers. He worries about making himself understood. And that's very different. For next week: An essay by Adam Hochschild; discussant, Gosia. I have hard copies. ...
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
It's all a matter of perspective
For this week, we'll be reading two profiles of the same subject: That dreamy George Clooney.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
More big ideas
Monday, 11 of us discussed Gene Weingarten's "Pearls Before Breakfast," and we got to talking about his abilities as an editor. Lisa Grace and I recalled this elegiac piece, and we'll be talking about it on Monday 21 April. See you then. All are welcome.
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