12 p.m. ET Monday, July 24
Great narrative journalism takes readers on a journey by telling stories with scenes and characters as well developed as those you would find in a good novel. It’s gratifying to write, but the research, reporting and pitching of the idea to an outlet take time and determination. In this webinar, seasoned editors and reporters will offer tips for breaking into narrative journalism, including knowing what editors want, crafting pitches and figuring out whether the pay will be worth the effort.
Jane C. Hu
Brady Huggett
Pamela Weintraub
Barbara MantelPamela Weintraub is the senior editor for science and psychology at Aeon and the co-editor in chief at OpenMind magazine. Previously, Weintraub was senior editor, features editor and executive editor at Discover Magazine, where she assigned and edited long-form journalistic narratives and investigations that won numerous top journalistic awards and honors.
Brady Huggett is the enterprise editor at Spectrum, where he edits features and long-form projects. Before joining Spectrum, he served as business editor at Nature Biotechnology and managing editor at the biotech daily news service BioWorld. Huggett has master’s degrees in journalism and in creative writing and has won prizes for his fiction and nonfiction writing.
Jane C. Hu is a freelance journalist based in Seattle. Her work appears in publications like Slate, High Country News, WIRED, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Outside, and The Atlantic. She sits on the boards of the National Association of Science Writers and The Open Notebook.