Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Saturday, July 04, 2026

Re-discovering New Haven for CNN Travel

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I got to visit New Haven on the company dime and I enjoyed every minute of it. Now you can, too -- here's my story . It's part of a ...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Nieman: Most Americans don’t pay for news & don’t think they need to

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This isn't a blog about the profession that's helped me pay the bills. It's quite the opposite -- a blog to my passions, the on...
Friday, February 06, 2026

The best magazine you've never read (unless you're 12)

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When “The Week Junior”  arrives in the mail, my 12-year-old son sits down immediately to read it cover to cover. One quick look at its smart...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

For CNN Travel: why can't America have more piazzas?

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Piazza Navona. Piazza Santo Spirito. Campo dei Fiori. Piazza Duomo (Milan). Just some of the piazzas I love.  And since I now work as a con...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Edith Bruck & My Year in Translation (2025)

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It was the year of the milestone for me -- I published my first book-length translation, This Darkness Will Never End . I both love and hate...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Why you should press 'record' on Thanksgiving (my Bos. Globe essay)

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I'm reposting  an essay I wrote for The Boston Globe about the power of our loved ones' words, & the treasure I found in record...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor, dies at 113 (CNN)

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My first published obituary for CNN -- and I'm proud to say it is one I pitched, and one I knew we had to have. Rose Girone survived bo...
Thursday, March 06, 2025

Birthday journal

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Normally for my birthday, I record an entry in my digital journal. A habit whose name in shorthand is, ' Birthday Journal .' Just a ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Writing about Patrick Modiano for the Boston Globe (Jan. 19, 2025)

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So thrilled to write about Patrick Modiano in the Sunday Boston Globe . His newest novel, Ballerina, which will be published this week by Y...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

What women Holocaust survivors can teach us

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When I went to study at the New York Public Library in connection with a short fellowship I'd won, my intention was to study the author...
Sunday, June 04, 2023

Stepping Stones Reveal a Path into Italy's Dark History -- for PBS site

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Writing stories culled from your travels is a dream assignment. I rarely get paid to do it! But in this case I did, and what's more, the...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

The Year in Writing and Failing (final edition)

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The year went so badly for writing that I pre-empted this now-annual post with a precocious version over the summer, declaring that " w...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Why you should press 'record' on Thanksgiving (for the Boston Globe)

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I began by recording Leo, and ended up recording my parents.  And I've published an essay about doing both while also researching the Un...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

On all of the Joan Didion items you might want to buy (for CNN)

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Every now and again, I file stories for CNN (instead of simply editing other writers' stories), and every now and again I am able to co...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Walking the dog to the sound of Italian news

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I hear Mike chuckle a s I grab my quilted LL Bean vest on my way out the door  to walk the dog one morning last summer. “You’re not going to...
Monday, August 15, 2022

In Italy for the banner hed: "Addio al governo Draghi"

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I go to Italy to reconnect with the old Jeanne, the one who wasn't able to resist the siren call of il Bel Paese after her college gradu...
Friday, March 18, 2022

When an ex-reporter like me tries to write fiction

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“Well, is he crooked or not?   My editor didn’t bother waiting for me to walk across the newsroom to his desk. He'd spotted me the mom...
Friday, March 11, 2022

NYT: "Watching the U.S. Election While Irish" (file under 'articles I love')

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This is the art of writing a newspaper column -- or an op-ed -- at its finest: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/opinion/cnn-election-irela...
Monday, December 20, 2021

The Year in Writing ... and Contemplation

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Here we are at the end of another year -- at the end of another can-you-believe-it year. A year where you could be forgiven for asking, Did ...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Love this: How a Barber and Journaling Expert Spends His Sundays

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I'm a sucker for a journalistic profile of any kind, even a mini-profile in the form of the Sunday Routine column in The New York Times ...