Category: Behind The Story
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Birkenstock fever: Bloomberg’s Tim Loh writes about the evolution of a very famous sandal
Chronicling the 250-year history of the Birkenstock shoe company, Tim Loh turns over a lot of stones — including the firm’s connections to the Nazi Party — and takes a look at what made it an international best-seller.
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The last day: Journalist Charley Locke examines the ritual of retirement
When Charley Locke embarked on a recent story about retirement for The New York Times Magazine, she found a fractured process that looks different for seemingly every American.
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Talking PostSecret, ‘dark matter,’ and the bygone era of online earnestness with journalist Meg Bernhard
Twenty years ago, before TikTok and Instagram and the concept of “doomscrolling,” websites like PostSecret felt like a raw, authentic slice of the then-adolescent internet. The site, which miraculously still exists in 2024, features a hand-picked collection of anonymous postcards written by people from around the world, who divulge their deepest, darkest secrets in just…
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For Slate writer Dan Kois, everything is copy — except some stuff
In 2021, a New Zealand father and his three young children went missing. When they casually reappeared 17 days later, after apparently camping in the deep bush but neglecting to tell anyone where they were going, it sparked a heated debate among the country’s parents: Was the father, Tom Phillips, putting his kids at risk…
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How Alan Prendergast reported on ‘America’s loneliest prisoner’ and others like him
Alan Prendergast has been writing about America’s prisons for decades and can speak to the complications of reporting on a supermax to finding a longform subject worth writing about.
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For Pulitzer-winning Eli Saslow, good writing is all about the reporting
Eli Saslow of The New York Times drops readers into the emotion of the scenes he describes and says he leans on deep, thorough reporting to power his writing, including a recent piece on an Arizona border rancher.
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