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The best American newspaper narratives of 2012 [electronic resource] /
- one online resource, 262 pages : illustrations ;
- Number 1 in the Mayborn best American newspaper narrative series .
Life of a salesman / Eli Saslow (The Washington Post) -- Never let go / Kelley Benham (Tampa Bay Times) -- Breaking free / Anne Hull (The Washington Post) -- Snowfall: the avalanche at Tunnel Creek / John Branch (The New York Times) -- Donna's diner: in the hard fall of a favorite son, a reminder of a city's scars / Dan Barry (New York Times) -- The nation's poet / Rosalind Bentley (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- I boy / Mark Johnson (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) -- Young Houstonians go from homelessness to college / Monica Rhor (Houston Chronicle) -- The girl who took down the gang / Louis Hansen (Virginian-Pilot) -- Soldiers recount 60-second attack that left them reflecting on life and death / Martin Kuz (Stars and Stripes) -- Judges' biographies.
"This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2012 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, which is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplary narrative work and encourages narrative nonfiction storytelling at newspapers across the United States. First place winner: Eli Saslow,"Life of a Salesman," published by the Washington Post, is about a swimming pool salesman experiencing the unraveling of his decades-long success story"--Publisher's annotation.
9781574415490
Journalism-- Awards -- United States
Feature stories -- United States
Reportage literature, American.
People with social disabilities -- United States
People with social disabilities-- Press coverage -- United States
071.3079
Life of a salesman / Eli Saslow (The Washington Post) -- Never let go / Kelley Benham (Tampa Bay Times) -- Breaking free / Anne Hull (The Washington Post) -- Snowfall: the avalanche at Tunnel Creek / John Branch (The New York Times) -- Donna's diner: in the hard fall of a favorite son, a reminder of a city's scars / Dan Barry (New York Times) -- The nation's poet / Rosalind Bentley (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- I boy / Mark Johnson (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) -- Young Houstonians go from homelessness to college / Monica Rhor (Houston Chronicle) -- The girl who took down the gang / Louis Hansen (Virginian-Pilot) -- Soldiers recount 60-second attack that left them reflecting on life and death / Martin Kuz (Stars and Stripes) -- Judges' biographies.
"This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2012 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, which is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplary narrative work and encourages narrative nonfiction storytelling at newspapers across the United States. First place winner: Eli Saslow,"Life of a Salesman," published by the Washington Post, is about a swimming pool salesman experiencing the unraveling of his decades-long success story"--Publisher's annotation.
9781574415490
Journalism-- Awards -- United States
Feature stories -- United States
Reportage literature, American.
People with social disabilities -- United States
People with social disabilities-- Press coverage -- United States
071.3079