Jan 14, 2015
Excellent advice from prolific author Neil Gaiman on the best way to be a writer.
Jan 13, 2015
A roundup of “Best of” lists for longform journalism in 2014. Longreads’ 10 most popular stories of 2014 Longform’s best of 2014 The World Post’s list of best longreads on world affairs from 2014 Eater’s 15 best longform food stories from 2014 SB Nation’s best...
Dec 3, 2014
When a journalist sits down to create a long-form piece, he or she already knows how the story ends. Now, the job is to make it interesting and meaningful. Then along comes Sarah Koenig, a producer at the famed This American Life radio show, who has brought a whole...
Nov 13, 2014
The spacecraft Rosetta and its lander Philae have twitter accounts! This is a good article from Mashable about how scientists are engaging people in the mission to the comet by giving personalities to inanimate objects. Reminds me of Xinhua’s Weibo account for...
Nov 12, 2014
From The Conversation: Reader comments on article have transformed journalism into a conversation but is that conversation worth publishing? One journalists says “I’d say that enabling reader comments is the worst thing to have happened to newspapers since …...
