Eli Saslow from the Washington Post will be in town over the weekend doing some reporting. He may be on campus Monday and I'm trying to get him to come talk to class.
Eli started out as a sports reporter and rode his fantastic reporting and writing skills over to the breaking news and politics side of things at the Post.
He wrote a fantastic story a couple of days after the fatal D.C. metro crash using extensive reporting to recreate events surrounding the crash. Read this and marvel at the power of the written word to surpass the drama of video.
He recalled, in 2008, the 2004 speech that launched Barack Obama's climb to the White House.
These are fantastic stories, told by someone who was no present at the moment he is describing. Yet he takes you there. Imagine the reporting he did that allows him to tell his stories in this detail, with such confidence. He may be breaking some of the rules you will labor under this semester, but the cardinal rules remain the same: Accuracy, newsworthiness, timeliness.
Please read these stories. If were are lucky and get Eli in class, be ready to dive into a conversation with a pro.
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The stories read like literary journalism.
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