Story Lab: March 6, 2011 - March 12, 2011

Story Pick: The future of long-form journalism in a hive?

My colleague at the Post, Beth Chang, sent out a link the other day to folks who write for and edit the Post's Sunday magazine that I can't stop thinking about. Those of us who love nothing more than to...

By Brigid Schulte  | March 11, 2011; 7:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
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Story Pick: The Madoff Tapes

"One evening, my home phone rang. “You have a collect call from Bernard Madoff, an inmate at a federal prison,” a recording announced. And there he was." And with that opening, Steve Fishman's piece in New York magazine, The Madoff...

By Brigid Schulte  | March 10, 2011; 7:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (1)
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Story Pick: I Can't Think!

Much has been written about the rushed and somewhat disappointing debut of the new Newsweek. Slate's Jack Shafer calls it "a meal that a homeless person would walk away from." Choire Sicha wrote in The Awl that the issue would...

By Brigid Schulte  | March 9, 2011; 7:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (1)
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Story Pick: Tina Fey, Witches, Hollywood and Working Mothers

I had just finished spending time in Frederick County, where a devout Mormon County Commissioner’s comments about the “ideal” role of a mother – in the home caring for her children – sparked and uproar. I was drawn to the...

By Brigid Schulte  | March 8, 2011; 7:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (2)
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