These are the pieces of reporting, essays, culture writing, etc. that stayed with me over the course of 2017.
Tag: journalism
Chasing criminals west of the Schuylkill
Fitted with bracing illustrations, a harrowing longform story about gun violence and a West Philly drug gang went live this week at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
More stories than we could use
In the summer of 2013, a 26 year-old fortuneteller in New York City’s Times Square secured $2,500 for a consultation with a new client over his bout of lovesickness.
Clickable: Longform writing in 2015
Longform writing 2015: Like many people, I spent a lot of time reading long articles last year.
It’s really frustrating to see copy editing — a traditionally female role in newsrooms — continually devalued like this. Copy editing is one of the things that sets professional publications apart from amateurs. https://twitter.com/markgodich/status/1205556664017051648
“Tom didn’t just read things; he digested the mechanisms of them and could riff on them. He was not just regurgitating what he had encountered somewhere. He was thoughtful and creative with that information” https://www.columbusalive.com/entertainment/20191212/final-dispatch-from-comics-reporter-tom-spurgeon-1968-2019
