Jacqui Banaszynski

The editor muses on the painful reality of drafting and deleting, and reminds you to consider applying to be next in the Storyboard chair.

Writing to find out what you want to write

The part-time position calls for someone to shepherd and celebrate nonfiction narrative across media platforms.

The editor offers appreciation for the notes of appreciation that have come her way, and the reminder to pay them forward.

By Jacqui Banaszynski ork as a journalist long enough, or at least start as a journalist long enough ago, and “-30-” was a standard part of your newsroom language. It was typed at the bottom of every story I sent during my early reporting days. (I liked to add a small flourish, so often used […]

Setting up the next chapter of life’s story

The editor muses on how cultural references have the power to make writing more intimate and authentic, but can also leave readers out.

The editor and a friend engage in a respectful debate about who they think of when they write.

often ask the journalists I work with who they write for. A more productive way of framing that question is to ask who they envision as the audience for their essay or magazine story or book. Who do they most want to reach, and why? Is it their sources? The publication they are writing for? […]

By Jacqui Banaszynski hat political hangover I mentioned several days ago, as I braced for the first (and maybe last) presidential debate of this fraught election season, has turned into a full-blown intellectual headache. It was especially interesting to follow the cascade of news during the week that the U.S. celebrates its independence from rule […]