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I edit the Financial Times Weekend Magazine @FTMag. Formerly of Time, Fortune & BW. Story’s the thing…
Aug 1, 2023 11 tweets 5 min read
1. I got a lot of emails and DMs about the story clock for @MilesMJohnson's @FTMag cover story I posted last week, so I thought I’d post a few narrative nonfic resources in case anybody finds it useful (a thread) Image 2. First off, there’s no formula, no Secret Right Way to do narrative nonfiction/literary journalism, at least as far as I know. You have to be as interested in the telling as the substance and have a sense of why the idea works as a magazine story