School news reporting • School news in F • Editorials/op-eds/columns • Features and interviews • Features vs reviews • Reporting on conferences • Faculty Profiles • Artist profile • Reviews
Faculty
Profiles
Class
With the 'Ph.D. Diva'
By Felicia R. Lee
Tricia Rose, scholar and author, turns a critical eye on hip-hop, sexuality
and cultural images of blacks.
Local
prof trains her lens at Ground Zero
An example of
a faculty profile, news peg a lecture to be given by SAIC art criticism
Prof. Margaret Olin.
Artist profile
ARTIST A KEY FORCE IN PUNK ROCK
Smith known for strong political views
By Justin M. Norton. Example of profile of artist, Winston Smith, with interview quotes mixed with background and descriptions of his art (album covers, etc.).
Features and interviews
Painter Neo Rauch: Painter with a vision that translates
Narrative of a studio visit interviewing "one of Germany's most successful artists" whose "style varies between Surrealism and Social Realism."
At
Seattle's Pop Conference, 500 academics and journalists swap theories
on Springsteen's ass, racism in indie rock and Blue Oyster Cult's use
of the cowbell as a "party signifier."
An example of how to cover a conference
by Roberta Cruger in Salon.com. Note the way she summarizes talks, characterizes
speakers, transitions between them, uses direct and indirect quotation,
description and background.
Doctors
Who Performed Abortions Before Roe v. Wade
Example of a news
story on a documentary, treated as a news event
Are
Politics Built Into Architecture?
An example of
reporting on a controversy
Jack
Kirby Heroes Thrive in Comic Books and Film
Example of a profile
occasioned by death of subject.
Elvis
Costello: My aim is still true
Example of a profile
of a musician
I
won't buy life while others die
Example of a profile
of an activist (AIDS) mixing interview and research
Features vs. reviews
What is the difference between a feature and a review treatment of the following stories?
The Louvre Views Its Art in a New Way (When Showing It in Atlanta)
An example of a feature story about a museum exhibit that could also have been approached as a review.
Are Politics Built Into Architecture?
An example of reporting on a controversy which could also have been written as the review of a catalogue or an exhibition (if the exhibition had not been cancelled).
Reporting conferences
Great curves! But how to wash the windows? Architects debate 21st Century icons
By Blair Kamin
This is a good example of how to do a news/feature about an issue or problem or controversy. Reporting on conferences poses special problems, and this article is also an example of how to do a news story about a conference (of architects in Chicago) by tribune architecture critic blair kamin. Note how he deals with the problem of selection--a full day of talks, lots of people to interview present, and he crafts a short article built around a few ideas and problems.
Editorials/Op-eds/Columns
Ground to a Halt, by Robert Pape. Expert on suicide bombers explains Israel's failure to defeat Hezbollah. Op-ed page, NY Times, 8/3/06.
Teenage Clicks
Financial Times editorial on Google's deal to cooperate with MySpace. An editorial which explains, contextualizes, and interprets.
The right not to be offended
Vicious protests at funerals have elicited a mistaken response: demands that they be outlawed
Steve Chapman's op ed using example of Rev. Fred Phelps's homophobic demonstrations at military funerals to argue against bans on demonstrations.
Liberals in Liberal Arts Colleges?
Historian Juan Cole takes on George Will's charge that universities are dominated by liberals and exclude conservatives.
Woody's
Starbust Memories
"What price
perversity?"
Maureen Dowd takes a news story,
Woody Allen's "trash-only-for-enough-cash" offer to write his
autobiography, and uses it to interpret Allen's life, career, art, and
sellout. Look at this column's mix of reporting and interpretation; news,
biography, film criticism, quotes from movies, and morals.
Drawing
together a Leonardo trove.
How a celebrated daily
columnist, Pete Hamill, writes about a Leonardo exhibition. No, he's not
an art critic.
From
politics to weather, dark times gnaw the soul
An
example of the column that is about everything by one of the country's
highest paid columnists.Pete Hamill
manages to write, in one column, about post-World War II optimism, the
weather, 3 dead in Gaza, Cheney and Halliburton and the Yankees.
Your
Urine, Please
Barbara Ehrenreich on ironies of drug-testing
Corporate
Tax Cheats Wreak Havoc On The Neediest Among Us
Arianna Huffington
takes study results on corporate tax evaders as a starting point and shows
how they affect the rest of us and especially the needy.
The
Karl Rove Diaries
Arianna Huffington's starting point is Sen.Bob Graham's
weird habit of keeping a log of his every waking moment. What if Karl
Rove, the brains behind Bush, kept a log?
For
some, indentured misery is a way of life
Carl Hiaasen starts with a quote from one farm labor
boss to draw a picture of the lives of farm laborers, thug bosses, and
the wealthy businessmen who employ them. How the system works.
The
End of the Imperial Project
Conservative columnist
Pat Buchanan uses Bush administration setbacks to critique neo-cons "imperial
project."
Postponing
the inevitable
Steve Chapman (Chicago Tribune) uses a talk by
policy analyst David Edelstein as the basis for a column. Notice he
doesn't report on Edelstein's talk until paragraph seven.
The Politics of the Christmas Story
James Carroll (Boston Globe) uses the Christmas holiday to remind readers of the political meaning of the original Christmas story and its contemporary relevance. An example of using a holiday to challenge received ideas and use history to question current politics.
Covering
School News
Under
scrutiny: privacy on campus
Has Sept. 11 changed the way we value and protect student information?
BY JUSTIN CHEN
Yale Herald, September 6, 2002 | Cover Story
Winner of the David W. Miller Award for student journalists from the
Chronicle of Higher Education.
Gilmore
controversy reaches new heights
Daily News column draws threatening and hateful invective; Gilmore seeks
legal help
BY JUSTIN CHEN Yale Herald, December 6, 2002
Glenda Gilmore, a Yale professor, is the target of a harassment campaign
after writing an opinion piece in the Yale Herald criticizing Bush's
Iraq policy. Controversy centers on a message board maintained by the
Herald which hosted obscene attacks on Gilmore and a column in the Herald
charging that she threatened to sue the Herald.
Health textbooks in Texas to change wording about marriage
AP November 6, 2004
Reviews
Review of Paul Chan's "My Birds...trash...the future" by Jerry Saltz, Village Voice
Other art reviews
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