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The First Person in Journalism Must Be Earned
Journalism, and our written culture generally, has been moving in the direction of more first person over the past 30 or 40 years, but its use should be…
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Ted Conover
The Orgy Next Door: Ethical Relationships in Gay Talese's 'Thy Neighbor's Wife' and 'The Voyeur's Motel'
On the balance between loyalty to the reader and to the investigated subject or community, and the need for self-awareness in literary journalism.
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Julie Wheelwright
Indigenous Literary Journalism, Saturation Reporting, and the Aesthetics of Experience
On the power of two award-winning features by Mohawk journalist Dan David.
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Bill Reynolds
The Tech Threat: Literary Journalism in the Age of Interruption
Digital tools can benefit their users as long as they do not overpower personal relationships and social bonds.
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Jacqueline Marino
Svetlana Alexievich and the Difficulty of Telling the Stories of Those Who Cannot Tell the Stories Themselves
Teaching Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich's techniques as an alternative to some of the ego-driven pitfalls of literary journalism.
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Melissa Nurczynski
'What Inna Namea Christ Is This': The Origins of Tom Wolfe's Journalistic Voice
Famous for his idiosyncratic, exuberant use of punctuation, Tom Wolfe has one of the most distinctive journalistic voices.
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Matthew Ricketson
'Literary Journalism ... It's News That Stays News': A Conversation With Barry Siegel and Amy Wilentz
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle award winners on teaching literary reportage in universities, setting up journalism programs, and…
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Isabelle Meuret
'You Can Write About Reality and Do Literature': A Conversation With Susana Moreira Marques
The Gulbenkian fellowship recipient on literary journalism in Portugal and the differences between reporting for newspapers and reporting for…
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Alice Trindade
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Isabel Nery
Writing From the (Indigenous) Edge: Journeys Into the Native American Experience
Two classic books apply the tools of literary journalism to render Native American life in personal, culturally nuanced, and deeply observed narratives.
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John Coward
Miles Franklin and the Women Literary Journalists of Gonzo Ethnography
Immersing in low-wage labor brings to mind George Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London," yet there is a history of literary journalists that…
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Kerrie Davies
'Journalists at Heart Are Storytellers': A Conversation With Elinor Burkett
The Academy Award-winning reporter on leaving a tenured professorship to get into journalism and why it's important to always be hyper-conscious of who…
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Callie Long
Seeking 'Debwewin': Literary Journalism Through an Indigenous Lens
Interpreting works of literary journalism through an Anishinaabe analytical framework for truth.
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Duncan McCue
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