William Finnegan
William Finnegan
William Finneganis a staff writer at The New Yorker and well-known author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writing on surfing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
differences profound may
The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.
past dragons stories
You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.
cities community different
I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject, the interviewee - actually tend to hold steady much more consistently in rural Africa than they do in the American inner city.