February 2012
9 posts
Talk Small: Order out of chaos: Writer's block →
aaronleaf:
I read recently that writing is about making a million small choices one after another. Maybe this is obvious but I’d never thought of it this way before.
Trouble making decisions is supposed to indicate a creative mind. Which means, I tell myself, that routine panic attacks over restaurant menus…
Nicki Minaj profiled in New York magazine →
“Shape-shifting is a survival mechanism for a lady in rap: If you stay in one place, the latent male aggression will gut you like a fish.”
What a sentence. I wish I had written that. Even if you’re not a Minaj fan, read this for the writing.
Though I Can’t Be Certain, I Suspect That This... →
doree:
barthel:
A Jake Tapper (!) piece from McSweeneys (!) in 1999 (!) speaks to point 4 of Maura’s “How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide.”
This is seriously genius. And so applicable to like… everything:
She doesn’t have tartar sauce. Just ketchup. She apologizes. That’s okay, I say. She asks me about writing profiles like this one. Is it fun? Is it interesting? Who...
“Collectively, women’s magazines—by which I mean the whole field, from fashion...”
– Hillary Rosner, Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags.
Rosner, a freelance science writer and former Knight Fellow at MIT, shares (frustrating) anecdotes about trying to write serious science journalism for women’s magazines.
(via futurejournalismproject)
January 2012
8 posts
“Really? ‘Nerds’? You know, actually, I think the word you’re looking for is...”
– JON STEWART, on members of Congress considering the SOPA and PIPA bills exasperatedly calling for “nerds” to help them understand SOPA and PIPA, on The Daily Show.
Why does Congress bother convening at all?
(via inothernews)
kellyoxford:
December 2011
12 posts
“We’re socializing boys to believe that being a man means being powerful and in...”
– Jackson Katz, PhD
Educator
Filmmaker, Tough Guise
Author, The Macho Paradox
Heard in the documentary Miss Representation.
(via metricjulie)
November 2011
5 posts
“Four weeks after my 13th birthday, my dad killed my mum. He stabbed her in the...”
– This new “Experience” series from the Guardian seems like internet journalism at its most compelling, but its worst, to me. If you click through, you’ll see that all the experiences are rather sensational, “my baby was stolen,” “I’m married but sleep with...
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
3 posts
“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 1, Joan Didion (via fuckyeahjoandidion)
metricjulie: No one deserves to suffer in silence →
metricjulie:
Not too long ago I linked to a study on incest, and the next day I woke up to 6 emails from people who have been abused, know someone who has been abused, or are just generally appalled and didn’t know it was so prevalent and horrifying. Over the course of the summer, 2 more people have confided…
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I really enjoyed this. I’ve been questioning...
August 2011
6 posts
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ONA Issues: 11 Journalism Jobs You May Hold in the... →
onaissues:
Sustainable Journalism points out 11 new jobs for journalists in the evolving media landscape:
“Headline Optimizer. Headlines aren’t what they used to be, especially in the online world. Once you could be witty or silly or clever, depending on the story. And once you didn’t have to worry…
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"Women are not encouraged to become tenacious, she... →
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
6 posts
