August 2008
2 posts
Telling Stories
I was thinking today about how we in “the business” often refer to our pieces as stories. It’s an odd name, when you think about it. But I still like it better than the other common name we give our work: article. While story is, perhaps, a bit of a misnomer (it’s not fiction, after all; at least, in the newspaper biz, it better not be), it avoids the cold impersonality of the word article.
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“When knowledge comes, memory comes too, little by little … Knowledge and memory...”
– Memory, Then and Now - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
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