Know Your Classmate--Or, It's All in the Details
Talk about a sharp-shooter.
Who is Lydia?
The part of a feature story that comes after the nut graph but before the kicker.
What is the exposition?
In Amanda Petrusich's New Yorker piece, "Phoebe Bridgers's Frank, Anxious Music," the writer and the musician go here for lunch. (Hint: This question came from Hailey OOOOOOO.)
What is the Oyster Bar?
The movie Ashlin says she could rewatch and rewatch and rewatch...
What is ??????
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…
What is Tale of Two Cities?
He makes long runs go very quickly.
Who are the Luke Grecco?
One of the things you want to get into a pitch letter.
What is a quote from a source? What is some biographical about the writer? What is a reason the publication may be interested in your piece?
He wrote: "Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel -- only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence, and it affects not only his own psyche but also seems to cause a kind of psychosomatic nasal drip within dozens of people who work for him, drink with him, love him, depend on him for their own welfare and stability."
Who is Gay Talese?
Former UO basketball players who are on the NY Liberty, a team that visited Eugene a couple of weeks ago.
Who are Sabrina Ionescu and Nyara Sabally?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
What is “Star Wars”?
The martial arts activity that Olivia's subject does.
What is kendo?
Small pieces of cardboard.
What Gay Talese uses to take notes?
W.B. Yeats used this reference in a poem. Joan Didion used the same reference in an essay you read, isn't that correct, Ella?
What is Slouching Towards Bethlehem?
We talked about ethical lapses in journalism last week, just at the the time this newspaper printed a bogus, AI-produced story about summer books.
What is the Chicago Sun-Times?
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
What is “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The city Ellie traveled to cover World Press Freedom Day.
What is Brussels, Belgium?
The kind of lede Casey employed when writing the following opener to his profile:
Everyone and everything is covered in mud. Angry and wet, demonstrators shelter from the rain under a too-small brown tarp for what will become an infamously horrible meeting. The Pro-Palestinian encampment members gather to continue their project and discuss next steps. The holes in the tarp above them lie at the bottom of a long list of problems, but the cold drips certainly don’t help ease the tension in the air. It’s May of 2024, and Jace Deininger is still learning the ropes of activist organizing as he steps up to facilitate the meeting.
What is a scene-setting lede?
He wrote:
He was hardly the first to make up stories. Janet Cooke had done it in 1980 in a Pulitzer Prize–winning piece for The Washington Post. Nik Cohn, 21 years after the fact, blithely admitted to having made up most of the New York story that inspired the film Saturday Night Fever. More recently, Boston Globecolumnist Patricia Smith was fired for making up parts of her columns. But none of these journalists approached the sheer calculation of Glass’s deceptions.
Who is Buzz Bissinger?
She will be the featured speaker at the SOJC graduation ceremony.
Who is Polly Irungu, the the first-ever photo editor for the office of VP Kamala Harris?
Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
What is “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by JK Rowling?
When Leo is not singing in class, he is out reporting on someone who collects this vintage product.
What is denim?
AAAAAhhhh. You mean the four A's of feature writing, right AAAAAbby?
What are Anecdote, Action, Angle Attitude?
THE SUN IS BARELY UP ON THIS NOVEMBER MORNING, but already Matt Long is in a rush. The career fireman knows the importance of moving fast: It can save a life. Today, however, he can’t seem to move quick enough.
Who is The Man?
The latest news operation in Eugene.
What is Lookout Eugene-Springfield?
In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon.
What is “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown?