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The Power of the Personal Statement (opens the original)
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Last year, Usha Lee McFarling took the helm of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, after the retirement of its previous director, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Deborah Blum. Each year, 10 scienc
Inside Slate’s Push for Longform (opens the original)
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For today’s newsletter I spoke to Leah Prinzivalli, a features editor at Slate, about why the online magazine is investing more resources into longform stories lately, and what kinds of pitches she’s looking for.Slate is still a home for surprising personal essays and opinion pieces, but editors are also looking to assign more reported essays and narrative features. Leah discusses below what makes a Slate longform piece, and she invites you
Fellowships, Freelancing & the Future of Nonfiction (opens the original)
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I had a surgery this summer, which forced me to take some downtime before the busy fall. But I am feeling better, and wanted to pop into your inboxes to say hello, and also welcome my new subscribers.Thank you to the readers who continue to recommend and support The Reported Essay. To those of you just getting acquainted, I’m a professor of literary journalism, a nonfiction book author, and an
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