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How does Susan Orlean find her profile subjects? How does Malcolm Gladwell get his sources to speak with him? How does Sarah Stillman bring the characters in her stories to life? Thanks to the Longform podcast, we listened in on conversations with writers for The New Yorker as they spilled their secrets for outstanding reporting and storytelling.
Cartoonists around the world are regularly jailed, harassed, sued, threatened, and forced into hiding. Or they disappear.
Cations, from top:
1. Cartoon by Signe Wilkinson that won the 2015 World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon competition
2. Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani was driven into exile in 2007.
3. South African cartoonist Zapiro was charged with defamation by the president following the publication his cartoons.
4 & 5. Malaysia cartoonist Zunar currently faces up to 43 years in jail for his images.
6. Ecuadoran cartoonist Bonil faces continued fines and harassment for his cartoons.
7 &8. Sri Lankan cartoonist Prageeth Eknelygoda disappeared on his way home in 2010 and has not been hear from since.
9. Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat, pictured at an exhibition of his work in London in 2012, was abducted and his hands deliberately crushed in reprisal for his political cartoons.
“Despite its promise of liberation, democratization, and levelling, the digital revolution, in undermining traditional forms of media, has actually produced a greater concentration of power in fewer hands, with less organized counter-pressure.”
– George Packer on why the press is less free today (via newyorker) on committeetoprotectjournalists executive director, Joel Simon’s new book.
“Even if you were quite sure he didn’t know your name, you were prepared to go to fantastic lengths to live up to his standards. And he was fun, the embodiment of how much fun journalism could be. Ben Bradlee was the least dull figure in the history of postwar journalism.”
– David Remnick remembers the legendary Washington Post editor. (via newyorker)
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This summer will be remembered as a rough one. In between visits to the beach, we were buffeted with bad news, from Malaysia Flight 17 to Michael Brown to the rise of ISIS. Visual storyteller Christopher Neiman, who was also responsible for the best World Cup coverage we saw this summer, powerfully captured the season’s mixed emotions for The New Yorker.
(via http://bit.ly/1rPVC7u)
Jill Lepore reflects on three of this summer’s most haunting images:
“I know what I first felt when I saw each one, aside from sick: the urge—a gut instinct, a child’s fantasy, really—to leap into the picture, save everyone, and stop everything. Grab the gun from the girl, the rifle from the sniper, and the knife from the terrorist.”
Photograph by Mario Anzuoni / Reuters
New New Yorker writing from our 2013 National Book Awards FinalistJill Lepore.
“For the guys who signed up for ISIS—including, especially, the masked man with the English accent who wielded the knife—killing is the real point of being there.”
– Dexter Filkins on the murder of Steven Sotloff. (via newyorker)
The New Yorker is opening its archive for everyone to read
Get ready to do some major binge-reading.
A look at Andrew McConnell’s photographs of Syria’s centenarian refugees in Lebanon.
Above: Dagha, one hundred and one years old.
(via newyorker)