Thought-provoking journalism.
March 20, 2011 4:02 PM Subscribe
I'm in a high-school journalism class. For an upcoming assignment, we have to lead a short class discussion, based around an interesting article. Help inspire me!
I am looking for interesting, unusual, or particularly well-written journalism pieces that you have come across any time in the past few months. Anything that has stuck in your head or made you think for a while after reading it. The discussion will be focused not on the subject matter itself, but on the way the piece was written and the way the author reveals this subject matter to the readers.
I am searching several publications myself, but I can't possibly read every newspaper in the country, so I thought I'd pose the question here to possibly catch some great articles I might not otherwise see.
I am looking for interesting, unusual, or particularly well-written journalism pieces that you have come across any time in the past few months. Anything that has stuck in your head or made you think for a while after reading it. The discussion will be focused not on the subject matter itself, but on the way the piece was written and the way the author reveals this subject matter to the readers.
I am searching several publications myself, but I can't possibly read every newspaper in the country, so I thought I'd pose the question here to possibly catch some great articles I might not otherwise see.
Longreads.com
posted by verbyournouns at 4:08 PM on March 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by verbyournouns at 4:08 PM on March 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
I suspect a lot of the answers are going to be 'help you to help yourself' rather than 'here's a neat article' (as phunniemee said). In that vein, I suggest looking at Arts and Letters Daily.
posted by Paragon at 4:11 PM on March 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Paragon at 4:11 PM on March 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
The Utne Reader's business is to find good journalism to reprint. I'll mention this since you probably won't be able to use it in your class thanks to the language in it, but this recent article there is probably both an example of what you're looking for and a lesson in how to recognize it. I read about it on MeFi, so yeah.
If you can use articles a year or more old, you might hit the library or a bookstore and look up any number of "Best American Crime Reporting," "Best American Science and Nature Writing," "Best American Sports Writing," or "Best American Magazine Journalism" compilations. The table of contents for the latest editions might be out on the publisher's sites and point you in the direction of good recent sources.
posted by Monsieur Caution at 4:29 PM on March 20, 2011
If you can use articles a year or more old, you might hit the library or a bookstore and look up any number of "Best American Crime Reporting," "Best American Science and Nature Writing," "Best American Sports Writing," or "Best American Magazine Journalism" compilations. The table of contents for the latest editions might be out on the publisher's sites and point you in the direction of good recent sources.
posted by Monsieur Caution at 4:29 PM on March 20, 2011
If the assignment isn't due for a few more weeks, I'd suggest waiting for the announcement of the 2011 Pulitzer winners on April 18th for the cream of the crop of recent journalism in a wide variety of styles. If that's too late, then last year's winners could do in a pinch. The winner for Feature Writing, for instance -- about parents who have unintentionally left their small children to die in locked, overheated cars -- was a gripping account of a heartbreaking tragedy that's usually dismissed by most people as "Eh, neglectful parents."
posted by Rhaomi at 4:35 PM on March 20, 2011
posted by Rhaomi at 4:35 PM on March 20, 2011
In the vein of Longreads.com, there's also Instapaper.
posted by nrobertson at 7:05 PM on March 20, 2011
posted by nrobertson at 7:05 PM on March 20, 2011
interesting, unusual, or particularly well-written:
Space Stasis - What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. By Neal Stephenson.
Found in MetaFilter
posted by bru at 8:16 PM on March 20, 2011
Space Stasis - What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. By Neal Stephenson.
Found in MetaFilter
posted by bru at 8:16 PM on March 20, 2011
« Older Help! I went scuba diving and now I think my head... | Where should I go in the South if I want to meet... Newer »
This thread is closed to new comments.
Sorry to snark, but a big part of that breed of assignment is learning to find and analyze sources yourself.
posted by phunniemee at 4:06 PM on March 20, 2011 [2 favorites]