This is a sampler of styles of feature writing –short and longform, news and culture– to give you a sense of narrative storytelling styles that might inform or inspire your efforts in feature writing and storytelling.
Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. Published in October 2017, this piece was the watershed moment of the #MeToo movement. In 2006, activist Tarana Burke began the Me Too Movement to raise awareness of sexual assault.
SOCIETAL ISSUES LONG FORM REPORTING AND STORYTELLING
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis by Linda Villarosa | New York Times Magazine. This feature story published in 2018 won National Magazine Award. Villarosa is a professor of journalism at City College.
This February 2019 essay by City College professor Emily Raboteau lays bare the immediacy of climate crisis in personal, local and human scale terms. This essay is another extraordinary example of literary journalism today.
This is a high school newspaper who took advantage of a security breach in 2017. The interview and then-incoming Defense Secretary John Mattis’ answers were revealing and shows great student reporting.
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