Closing in on Klosterman
Gelf Magazine, Feb 2, 2006:
Gelf gets Meta-Journalistic with ESPN.com's newest blogger.
David Downs
The nut graph—the concise who, what, when, where, and why of a story—can be a combat zone. Newsworthy people go up against the forces of calamity and good fortune. Anything can happen.
News gatherers themselves live and die by their nut graphs, and a measure of their fame or infamy is the number of nuts that end up getting devoted to them.
Some famous reporters-turned-journalistic fodder: ...
Gelf gets Meta-Journalistic with ESPN.com's newest blogger.
David Downs
The nut graph—the concise who, what, when, where, and why of a story—can be a combat zone. Newsworthy people go up against the forces of calamity and good fortune. Anything can happen.
News gatherers themselves live and die by their nut graphs, and a measure of their fame or infamy is the number of nuts that end up getting devoted to them.
Some famous reporters-turned-journalistic fodder: ...