{"id":1010,"date":"2014-09-10T21:23:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T21:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2017-07-01T15:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T15:05:28","slug":"reading-list-for-students-kelley-benham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/reading-list-for-students-kelley-benham\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading list for students: Kelley Benham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the academic year gets underway, <a href=\"http:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nieman Storyboard<\/a> asked top narrative journalism instructors what they\u2019re assigning their students to study this semester and why.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what our speaker Kelley Benham French is recommending to her students at Indiana University, where she recently started teaching:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/pearls-before-breakfast-can-one-of-the-nations-great-musicians-cut-through-the-fog-of-a-dc-rush-hour-lets-find-out\/2014\/09\/23\/8a6d46da-4331-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Fiddler in the Subway<\/a>,\u201d by Gene Weingarten [Washington Post]. I\u2019ve never met him, but Gene Weingarten is my biggest journalism crush. (Are you reading this Gene? My cheeks are all red.) His stories are just so damn smart, and complex, and gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/stories\/annotation-tuesday-eli-saslow-and-one-newtown-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Into the Lonely Quiet<\/a>,\u201d by Eli Saslow [Washington Post.] The best newspaper story I\u2019ve read in the last five years that wasn\u2019t written by Gene Weingarten.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/specials\/2009\/reports\/marianna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For Their Own Good<\/a>\u201d and its follow-up, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/specials\/2009\/reports\/dozier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 Years Later and It\u2019s Still Hell<\/a>\u201d by Ben Montgomery at the Tampa Bay Times. For the marriage of investigative and narrative elements, for courageous reporting, for elegant and muscular writing, for finding storytelling details in agonizing, hard-won interviews and in long-buried documents in musty basements. For Ben, who gave a damn before anyone else did. For all those lost, dead boys, who now have been brought back up out of their graves.<\/p>\n<p>This post was initially published on Nieman Storyboard and republished with the author\u2019s permission. <a href=\"http:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/stories\/required-reading-session-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the entire lists<\/a>\u00a0for other\u00a0useful assignments.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kelley gave an emotional speech\u00a0at #Story14 on writing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/specials\/2012\/reports\/juniper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0the most personal story of her life<\/a>, the one about the birth of her premature daughter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=982JJGK5E8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch her keynote<\/a> and an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qh-p52Dm82c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a> about\u00a0her process and the\u00a0advice she has for\u00a0young journalists.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the academic year gets underway, Nieman Storyboard asked top narrative journalism instructors what they\u2019re assigning their students to study this semester and why. Here\u2019s what our speaker Kelley Benham French is recommending to her students at Indiana University, where she recently started teaching: \u2022 \u201cThe Fiddler in the Subway,\u201d by Gene Weingarten [Washington Post]. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/reading-list-for-students-kelley-benham\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading list for students: Kelley Benham<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[42,54,60,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}