… and we’re done!

Thanks to Chip for bringing us home.

So, 48 is good. But more is better. Keep checking back!

For now, I’m off to the airport. And to get some food. I think I lost a few… Read more

… but acts like an investigative reporter?

Lucy Ferris.

Chip Scanlan went to her presentation today and jotted down a few tips. These are his notes. Starting now…

She writes stories about herself, but digs like a journalist to discover… Read more

… is a lot like writing about death.

That’s one of the things New York Times obituaries editor Bill McDonald told me this afternoon. I recorded our conversation and I’ll pull some tips out of it when I edit… Read more

… the lede; it’s about finding it, Maureen Croteau said earlier this afternoon.

Croteau directs the journalism program at the University of Connecticut.

She and her husband, Wayne Worcester, who also teaches journalism at the university, conducted… Read more

… if you want to write something worth reading.

That’s from Pulitzer Prize winner and former Boston Globe columnist Eileen McNamara.

33 There is no substitute for being there. “It’s about boots on the street.” No matter… Read more

… the data (and the real people who populate it).

A little less than a year ago, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant ran a four-day, seven-story series that revealed massive lapses in the way the military screens for… Read more

… sightseeing.

But that’s not going to stop me from (finally) giving you this little bit of literary history from Chip Scanlan:

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… but people still think it’s real!

Andy Borowitz, author of the crazy-hilarious Borowitz Report, closed out the day with some great laughs. At first, I thought to myself: “Wait a minute, this isn’t very educational. How am I… Read more

… w/ Dan Barry.

“When I got to the [Journal Inquirer] I rode around … and imagined that 20,000 people around me were keeping secrets from me.” When Dan got to The New York Times, that number jumped to eight… Read more

… some tips along the way.

For a long time, Steve Friedman squeezed out a living writing magazine stories about celebrities. When he had time, he wrote stories he loved, stories about recovered drug-addict marathon runners, and the like.… Read more