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:: Thursday, August 21, 2003 ::

A must-buy: Best Newspaper Writing 2003: The Nation's Best Journalism

To those who say newspaper writing is merely dull and lifeless, I say read this:

CAIRO – Slowly, with pain, Orani Mahmaud Daker climbed the stairs to the second floor schoolroom where he was supposed to vote.

He propped himself with a stout wooden cane that was in his right hand. His grandson, Rashid, helped on the left. His breath came in short whooshes from brown cheeks, which were not so much wrinkled as folded where the absence of teeth let the skin go lax.

Once Orani Daker was a tall, graceful man. But 32 years of delivering water in Cairo, a liter at a time from a heavy leather gourd that pressed cold and damp against his back for 10 hours a day, had stiffened and bent him and used him up before his time.

That's an excerpt from aforementioned book, the 25th anniversary edition of the Best Newspaper Writing anthology. As pointed out by this Poynter promo about the book (Poynter is, after all, a co-publisher), "writers share their best tips, their insights and techniques, their secret fears and, most importantly, their winning work." This is the kind of stuff I my my writing staff can learn from.

:: Andrew 08:05 + ::
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