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My Gettysburg ora­tion: A vision for jour­nal­ism that can long endure:

But let’s be hon­est: Most of the con­tent we pub­lish isn’t sto­ries. It’s news. It’s facts. It’s infor­ma­tion. Let’s respect the pure, tra­di­tional story – the nar­ra­tive string of para­graphs – by reserv­ing that form for real sto­ries that have story ele­ments such as plot, char­ac­ter, set­ting and theme.

This whole speech is phenomenal.

The Farmer

This farmer real­izes that the rela­tion­ship with her work, like any good rela­tion­ship is, and should be, rec­i­p­ro­cal. That the work, the land, would not be as good with­out her com­mit­ment to it. And, in turn, it returns that com­mit­ment to her. And, because of… Continue read­ing →