Inspirational Reading Assignments
Here’s a list of reading assignments that you can explore during and after the course. I will add more to this page as we go and will notify you via a group message, recommending which ones to focus on at different times; but I encourage you to explore them as you have time regardless of my recommendations.
Farm to Table – Tampa Bay Times – This series is a great example of the kind of reporting that should be invested into journalistic opinion writing and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Battle on the Sny – a good example of how to use narrative style in a news story.
Blog Community Building – advice from the Huffington Post on how to create blog communities.
Deborah’s Choice – another good example of the narrative style
The Beekeepers– a good narrative-style example
What Goes Up – A great example of a personality profile that uses the narrative style and includes the reporter’s point of view.
The Real Heroes are Dead – A great narrative story where he reporter wasn’t there when events took place in all cases but where he was able to research in such a way that he could put things together in an accurate way and still do it in narrative style.
Finding Your Voice – Blogging
Bits and Pieces – This is a detailed view of many of the writing techniques in the lessons modules.
Feel Me – a narrative piece out of the New Yorker
Simplicity and Clutter – A good detailed view of some of what we will cover this week about how to clean up your writing
Style – A chapter about how to develop your own writing style.
Unity – A more detailed view of what we discussed about having unity in your writing.
The Squid Hunter – A nice narrative out of the New Yorker
The Metamorphosis – The New Yorker
Ideas – A chapter about how to find story ideas
Chasing Bayla – A good example of narrative style journalism by the Boston Globe.