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 19, 2008
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
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