Matt Haber

Nov 21, 2024 | thereportedessay.substack.com | Erika Hayasaki |Courtney Maum |Blaise Zerega |Matt Haber

Last week, in a post on story structures, I mentioned “the reported essay.” Here is how I described the form:A first-person story grounded in reflection and reporting. These pieces weave facts, scenes, interviews and research with personal observations and narrative storytelling.

Jul 11, 2024 | altaonline.com | Matt Haber

By the time you read this, Mike Rogge will be unreachable. In June, Rogge proclaimed on LinkedIn that he’d be offline until August, since “it’s too nice outside to be on the internet all of the time.” This followed Rogge’s automatic out-of-office email reply in the spring that read, “My hope this year is to ski more. I intend to do that.

May 9, 2024 | altaonline.com | Matt Haber

While writing The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America, journalist Tracie McMillan sought to quantify the benefits of being born white in a country where racism has always persisted in one form or another. As in her previous book, 2012’s The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, McMillan looked at how structures work.

Dec 26, 2023 | indignity.substack.com | Matt Haber

JOURNALISM DEP'T. By Matt HaberIN NOVEMBER OF this year, Recurrent Ventures, the owner of Popular Science and other “brands” formerly known as magazines, including Dwell and Domino, announced it wouldstop publishing digital quarterly editions of the title. Launched in 1872 (more than a decade before the invention of the automobile), PopSci was a newsstand constant for generations.

May 11, 2023 | altaonline.com | Matt Haber