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  • Narrative by the numbers: The language of Literary Journalism

    By Stuart Warner  (Originally published on Harvard’s Nieman Narrative website) Narrative writers and teachers often have a language all their own. With the help of the Nieman Foundation and Jon Franklin, I put together this lexicon of literary journalism. Feel free to add to it. 1. In media res: A narrative has a beginning, a…

  • Sept. 11, 2001 – ‘We had a job … a duty’

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    (This is an excerpt from “Akron’s Daily Miracle,” copyright University of Akron Press, 2020, edited by Stuart Warner and Deb Van Tassel Warner.) By Ann Sheldon Mezger “David, look at that.” I can still hear myself say those words, still see him glance up at the TV screen above my desk. The time had to…

  • Bringers of Change to Akron and Goodyear

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    Excerpted from Akron’s Daily Miracle (copyright 2020, University of Akron Press) By Stuart Warner Change was on the way to the Beacon Journal and Akron in 1986. On Sunday, March 30, Executive Editor Dale Allen headed south on I-77 to the Akron-Canton Airport to meet Knight Ridder Vice President Larry Jinks.  “A dozen possibilities passed…

  • Syllabus for ENG 306

    SYLLABUS CREATIVE NONFICTION – Literary journalism ENG 306 Fall 2009 WEDNESDAYS 4 p.m.-6:30 GUILFORD 323 Lecturer: Stuart Warner  Office hours: Guilford 316 Mondays & Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m. and by appointment E-Mail: warnercorn@msn.com Web page: thewritecoachonline.com blog: www. thewritecoach.wordpress.com office phone: 216-368-2371 COURSE OUTLINE This is a course for serious nonfiction writers. Literary journalism combines the writing…

  • Syllabus for ENG 204

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    INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM ENG 204 Fall 2009 MONDAYS 4 p.m.-6:30 GUILFORD 323 Lecturer: Stuart Warner  Office hours: Guilford 318 Mondays & Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m. and by appointment E-Mail: warnercorn@msn.com Web page: www.thewritecoachonline.com office phone:  216-368-2371   COURSE OUTLINE Journalism is changing as rapidly as I write this syllabus. A newspaper closes. A hundred new bloggers…

  • Syllabus: ENG 309

                                                    SYLLABUS WRITING FOR NEW MEDIA ENG 309; Spring 2010 M-W-F  2 p.m.-2:50  GUILFORD 317 Lecturer:  Stuart Warner                                                      Office hours:  Guilford 318                                                                                                 Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.                                                                                                 and by appointment                E-Mail:  warnercorn@msn.com                                                                                                   Web page: www.thewritecoachonline.com Blog: www.thewritecoach.wordpress.com   COURSE OUTLINE             Journalism is changing as rapidly as I write this syllabus.  A newspaper closes.  A…

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