Best American News Narratives – serie
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This anthology collects the twelve winners of the 2013 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event 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, “Into the Lonely Quiet” (Washington Post), follows the family of a 7-year-old victim of the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, six months after the shooting.Second place: Eric Moskowitz, “Marathon Carjacking” (Boston Globe), is the story of “Danny,”who was carjacked by the suspects of the Boston Marathon bombing three days after the bombing.Third place: Mark Johnson, “The Course of Their Lives”(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), an account of first-year medical students as they take a human dissection course.Runners-up include Christopher Goffard, “The Manhunt”(Los Angeles Times); Stephanie McCrummen, “Wait - You Described It as a Cloudy Feeling?”(Washington Post); Michael M. Phillips, “The Lobotomy Files”(Wall Street Journal); Aaron Applegate, “Taken Under”(Virginian-Pilot); Meg Kissinger, “A Mother, at Her Wits' End”(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel); Michael Kruse, “The Last Voyage of the Bounty”(Tampa Bay Times); Shaun McKinnon, “Alone on the Hill”(Arizona Republic); Mike Newall, “Almost Justice”(Philadelphia Inquirer); and Sarah Schweitzer, “Together, Despite All”(Boston Globe).
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This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2014 BestAmerican Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by theMayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event is hostedby the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism atthe University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplarynarrative work and encourages narrative nonfiction storytelling atnewspapers across the United States. First place winner: Dan Barry, “The Boys in the Bunkhouse,” published by The New York Times, exposed thirty years of physical and mental abuse of intellectually disabled men living in an Iowa group home.Second place: Christopher Goffard, “The Favor,” published bythe Los Angeles Times, describes the plea bargain sentence of the son of a former California assembly speaker, after the son pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, and whose prison sentence was later reduced by then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.Third place: Stephanie McCrummen, “A Father’s Scars,” published by the Washington Post, about a Virginia state senator one year after he was stabbed multiple times by his mentally ill son before he son killed himself.Runners-up include Nathan Bomey, John Gallagher and MarkStryker, “How Detroit was Reborn” (Detroit Free Press); Monica Hesse, “Love and Fire” (Washington Post); Sarah Schweitzer, “Chasing Bayla” (Boston Globe); Sarah Kleiner Varble, “Then the Walls Closed In” (TheVirginian Pilot); Janie Bryant and Joanne Kimberlin, “Dangerous Minds” (The Virginian Pilot); Molly Harbarger, “Fred Nelligan” (Oregonian); and Mark Johnson, “Murray’s Problem” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).
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This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2020 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Christopher Goffard, 'Detective Trapp' (Los Angeles Times) is about a complicated murder investigation and its human impact. Second place: Annie Gowen, 'Left Behind: American Farm Families in Crisis during Trump's Trade War' (The Washington Post) tells about a despairing farmer's suicide and aftermath. Third place: Jennifer Berry Hawes and Stephen Hobbs, 'It's Time for You to Die' (Post & Courier) presents a gut-wrenching drama of America's deadliest episode of prison violence.Runners-up include Peter Jamison, 'The Confession' (The Washington Post); Mark Johnson, 'House Calls and Rarest of Diseases' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel); Nestor Ramos, 'At the Edge of a Warming World' (Boston Globe); Noelle Crombie, Kale Williams, and Beth Nakamura, 'No Mercy' (The Oregonian); Tara Duggan and Jason Fagone, 'The Fisherman's Tale' (San Francisco Chronicle); Jenna Russell, 'Brilliant, Faithful, Undaunted' (Boston Globe); and Charles Scudder, 'Guardians: When Evil Came Through the Door' (Dallas Morning News).