Here are a few features and news-feature articles that I edited and that, I thought and still think,
came out well. More revelatory magazine features I've edited can be found via the "investigative" link on the home page.
Or here.
The best-written and most thoroughly researched story on the great and mysterious honeybee die-off of 2007; winner of a special citation in the 2008 James V. Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism. "The ease with which this piece puts pen to paper -- and leaves lasting images in the reader's mind -- belies the enormous amount of work that went into her exceptional reporting," one contest judge wrote. By the wide-ranging Hannah Nordhaus. The full story.
How industry uses its own research to delay response to public dangers (think asbestos, tobacco, climate change) for decades. Written by Michelle Nijhuis, a High Country News contributing editor whose work has appeared in National Geographic and Smithsonian magazines.
The full story.
A look into the odd and at times anti-logical world of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, a Utah-based group that conserves a lot of wilderness -- and guns down coyotes, cougars and every other kind of predator it can put the crosshairs on. Written by Hal Herring, a National Magazine Award finalist. The full story.
In Europe, governments are using ideas from the new science of well-being to try to make citizens more content. In America, it's another story, written by Ryan Blitstein, a 2008 Livingston Award finalist. The full story.
The first honest look into the unpleasant psychic mess that is Barry Bonds. Brain surgery performed by Benoit Denizet-Lewis, who went on to a staff job at the New York Times Magazine.The full story
The bizarre story of a "homeless hacker." By the multitalented Matt Palmquist, who now works with me at Miller-McCune magazine. The full story
The definitive profile of San Francisco Chronicle Publisher and bete noir of unionized newspapermen across the land, Frank Vega. By Tommy Craggs, a young freelancer who will, if there is justice in journalism, be a household name within a decade. The full story
Why Huey Lewis appeals to the retarded. Beyond the obvious. The full story