The New Republic
Sep 2012
The former editor of the New York Observer, profiled.
A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.
Tom Wolfe on the development of ”New Journalism,” an unconventional reporting style which he helped to pioneer.
I had the feeling, rightly or wrongly, that I was doing things no one had ever done before in journalism. I used to try to imagine the feeling readers must have had upon finding all this carrying on and cutting up in a Sunday supplement. I liked that idea. I had no sense of being a part of any normal journalistic or literary environment.
How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.