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Dan Baum and the half-empty glass
Dan Baum, a writer who’s worked for Esquire and The New Yorker, talked with the Renegade Writer blog about freelancing and the future of the magazine business. A couple things caught my eye. First, I always feel a bit lost when I’m working on a freelance piece and someone I’m interviewing asks me who I’m writing…
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Nieman Conference: Thoughts on Day Two, P.M.
Over lunch, a bunch of strangers and I tried to figure out how to save the newspaper business. We didn’t succeed in finding a solution, but the brownies were quite tasty. For the first afternoon session, went to “Conversation on Craft” on Magazines. The conversation focused on this powerful feature story from the New Yorker:…
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Nieman Conference: Thoughts on Day Two, A.M.
The Keynote session to kick off Day Two was a discussion with author and writer for the New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson. To me, it seemed like a little too much fawning over Anderson. Felt like I was watching “Inside the Actor’s Studio”… Despite that, I did take away a few morsels of value from Anderson’s…