the best enterprise/project writers

[Dick Whitman]

Oh, and Dan Wetzel and Charles Robinson, of course.

And, magazine-wise, George Dohrmann at Sports Illustrated.

(Of course, all of SI's writers could probably qualify as "enterprise" writers in some way, particularly if they were writing the same material for a newspaper. But I'm thinking more about people who combine writing, shoe-leather reporting, a dash of anonymous sourcing to get things going, and some form of number crunching or document sifting.)

 

[Azrael]

Not sports.

Dan Barry.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/14/us/this-land-elyria-ohio.html#/#donnas-diner

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/14/us/this-land-elyria-ohio.html#/#elyrian-landscape

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/14/us/this-land-elyria-ohio.html#/#elyria-then-elyria-now

 

[writingump]

I was just getting ready to say Charles Robinson.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Not sports.

Dan Barry.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/14/us/this-land-elyria-ohio.html#/#donnas-diner

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/14/us/this-land-elyria-ohio.html#/#elyrian-landscape

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/14/us/this-land-elyria-ohio.html#/#elyria-then-elyria-now

http://gawker.com/5951763/a-cloying-tale-of-small-town-americana-by-dan-barry

 

[LongTimeListener]

Shocking that Gawker would hate something that everyone else quite liked. They're usually so un-contrarian.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Shocking that Gawker would hate something that everyone else quite liked. They're usually so un-contrarian.

In other breaking news, Slate trumpeted a counter-intuitive conclusion today.

 

[Azrael]

Who knows America or Americans better than Gawker*?




*nearly everyone, unless by "America" you mean "Elizabeth Street," and by "Americans" you mean the four classmates from UVa you now share your Greenpoint apartment with.

 

[Double Down]

http://gawker.com/5951763/a-cloying-tale-of-small-town-americana-by-dan-barry

Oh look, the kids who used to heckle from the back of class during earnest homework presentations are all grows up now!

 

[Azrael]

Such are the hardships of the professional contrarian. (Even if Nolan has a point - and in this case I'm not sure he does - it often gets lost in the maze of Gawker's own conventions against convention and sour self-regard.)

 

[Dick Whitman]

Even if Nolan has a point - and in this case I'm not sure he does.

I think that Nolan's point is that Barry essentially, in ostensibly glorifying flyover country Americana, frequently stereotypes it/condescends it instead.

It's a fair point, though the delivery, yeah, kind of gets in the way.

 

[Versatile]

Even if Nolan has a point - and in this case I'm not sure he does.

I think that Nolan's point is that Barry essentially, in ostensibly glorifying flyover country Americana, frequently stereotypes it/condescends it instead.

http://gawker.com/5831724/the-worst-50-states-in-america

 

[Azrael]

Gene Weingarten and Eli Saslow at the Washington Post.