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Aug 1, 2024 | niemanstoryboard.org | Trevor Pyle |Jeff Goldberg |Scott Stossel

Tagged with covering climate change narrative structure political reporting Profiles Sources For almost a year, George Packer — a writer for The Atlantic and winner of the National Book Award — told people he was working on a long-form story about Phoenix, Arizona. The response he got didn’t inspire the kind of confidence journalists seek. “If I were too susceptible to the expressions on people’s faces I might have given up because it didn’t inspire excitement,” Packer said. “It was more a...

May 26, 2024 | vnexplorer.net | Scott Stossel

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what's keeping them entertained. Today's special guest is Malcolm Ferguson, an assistant editor who has written about the case for Kwanzaa, and why he wishes his family would take up the holiday again.

May 24, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Scott Stossel

Listen00:0029:28Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. If there was a moment—a single shot, in fact—when the chemical composition of men’s tennis changed, it came on September 10, 2011, in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, as Novak Djokovic faced Roger Federer. At the time, Djokovic had won just three Grand Slam tournaments, compared with Federer’s towering 16. Federer took a two-sets-to-love lead and appeared to be cruising to victory.

May 10, 2024 | niemanstoryboard.org | Carly Stern |Scott Stossel |Jeff Goldberg |Jennifer Senior

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of an occasional series interviewing story editors about how they do their jobs.

Mar 11, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Cullen Murphy |Scott Stossel

William Whitworth, the editor of The Atlantic from 1980 to 1999, had a soft voice and an Arkansas accent that 50 years of living in New York and New England never much eroded. It was as much a part of him as his love of jazz, his understated sartorial consistency, and his deep dismay when encountering the misuse of lie and lay, a battle he knew he had lost but continued to fight.