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...idea is that there is a lot of reporting not being done in the world—either with entire beats that are not covered at all or smaller stories??and [the website] should encourage reporters and editors to feel more of a sense of community about what they are doing,” Sussman said...
When a color story on Carl Morris or Jen Botterill appears in the Boston Globe, no one thinks about the work Johnny V and his understaffed, overworked office did to make it happen. No one considers the work involved in trying to sell the countless, untold feel-good stories??the ones usually deemed uninteresting—and in fending off the media hordes that swarm when something goes wrong...
...even suffuses the judgment of merit of scientific theories; the highest compliment a scientist can bestow is to call a theory “beautiful” or to call a set of experiments “elegant.” Scientists attempt to make interesting “stories?? from their research to inspire their audiences. Our barometers of truth are tied up with our appreciation of beauty...
DoubleTake is clearly a labor of love. After reading the 128 pages following the editors’ note in its premiere issue—which contain personalized narratives ranging from a poem by Seamus Heaney to a photoessay of life in the Chicago barrio to impressionistic short stories??even the most skeptical reader would be moved to appreciate its social conscience. In its variety, consistency and precision of editorial expression, DoubleTake is unique. No word goes unillustrated, and no picture unexplained...
Dante Alighieri’s three sagas of the Divine Comedy, written in the 14th century, have long intrigued readers with the stories?? treatment of the afterlife...