{"id":2157,"date":"2021-06-08T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2021\/06\/08\/i-spent-my-career-writing-hard-news-thats-me\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:19:31","slug":"i-spent-my-career-writing-hard-news-thats-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2021\/06\/08\/i-spent-my-career-writing-hard-news-thats-me\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI spent my career writing hard news. That&#8217;s me.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">If you\u2019re not a fan of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/Misc\/Chicago\/500667.html\">\u201cA River Runs Through It,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;it can only be because you haven\u2019t read it yet. Norman Maclean\u2019s 1976 novella of family dynamics plays out on Montana\u2019s Blackfoot River and is an enduring literary classic. The 1992 movie of the same name, directed by Robert Redford and starring Brad Pitt and Tom Skerritt, is one of the rare Hollywood renditions worthy of its roots.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-image mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\" id=\"attachment_164861\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JohnNMaclean-e1623118063958-1.jpg\" alt=\"Journalist and author John N. Maclean\" class=\"wp-image-164861\" style=\"width:200px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John N. Maclean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Now Maclean\u2019s son, journalist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/johnmacleanbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John N. Maclean<\/a>, has written a family chronicle that is being hailed as the lyrical but true backstory to his father\u2019s short novel. According to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/home-waters-john-maclean\/2021\/06\/01\/62038dbe-c271-11eb-9a8d-f95d7724967c_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2j077oGCSrj2iKum4EfrzgSc76NAr9XfViLPzzDXO4jPopBOFsmXHYERk\">review in The Washington Post<\/a>, by former Montana newspaper editor Nick Ehli, \u201cHome Waters\u201d touches on family lore, but also fishing, geology and the threat of environmental degradation.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>After reading Ehli&#8217;s interview with the younger Maclean, I pulled \u201cA River Runs Through It\u201d off my shelf for a re-read. I now have \u201cHome Waters\u201d on order at a favorite independent bookstore. But a few things from Ehli\u2019s review are worth mentioning here:<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Norman Maclean was a prominent English professor at the University of Chicago. His son, John, worked as a newspaper reporter for 30 years, mostly as a Washington D.C. correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, then turned his reporting and writing talents to award-winning nonfiction books about wildland fires in the American West. He nods at how those diverged backgrounds influenced his father\u2019s writing, and his own:<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t spend my career teaching Shakespeare and Wordsworth,\u201d he says. \u201cI spent my career writing hard news. That\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>\u201cHome Waters\u201d started as an essay about fishing he wrote for a local anglers club which became a story for a regional magazine. That\u2019s where a book editor found it and pushed for more. From the Post story:<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>\u201cI thought this was going to be a big fish story, but then it turned into something very different,\u201d says Maclean, now 78. \u201cI don\u2019t call it a memoir. I call it a chronicle. A memoir is about you, and this isn\u2019t all about me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I bookmarked the review, and highlighted Maclean&#8217;s comments, as a reminder of several things:<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-list mb-4 list max-w-screen-full mx-auto pl-5 \">\n            \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Journalism seems, to some, to strip the literary elegance from writing. 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