Resources: Some of the best
2006 Pulitzer Winner: The Final Salute
Rocky Mountain News reporter Jim Sheeler and photographer Todd Heisler spent the past year with the Marines stationed at Aurora's Buckley Air Force Base who have found themselves called upon to notify families of the deaths of their sons in Iraq. In each case in this story, the families agreed to let Sheeler and Heisler chronicle their loss and grief. They wanted people to know their sons, the men and women who brought them home, and the bond of traditions more than 200 years old that unite them.
Michael Leahy: Family Vacation (American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors award winner 2006 from Washington Post)
His name is Mike Rubino, but until recently none of the women who bought his sperm to get pregnant had ever seen him or known him as anything other than Donor 929. Rubino left the sperm business for good a few years ago, thinking it would be another decade at least before any children found him. Now he is standing inside the Los Angeles International Airport, staring at an arrivals gate, awaiting the appearance of two children he has fathered but never met, along with their single mother, a Massachusetts psychotherapist named Rachel McGhee.
Jon Franklin - Mrs Kelly's Monster
In the cold hours of a winter morning Dr. Thomas Barbee Ducker, chief brain surgeon at the University of Maryland Hospital, rises before dawn. His wife serves him waffles but no coffee. Coffee makes his hands shake.
In downtown Baltimore, on the 12th floor of University Hospital, Edna Kelly's husband tells her goodbye. For 57 years Mrs. Kelly shared her skull with the monster: No more. Today she is frightened but determined.
One year ago this week, Hurricane Katrina smashed into New Orleans. Today, the tourists are back in Bourbon Street. Yet a few blocks away the streets look like a war zone with bodies still being pulled out of the wreckage. The Guardian's Paul Harris meets the victims of a storm that shows no sign of blowing over.
Resources: Online Magazines
The New York Times Sunday Magazine: the oldest and one of the best newspaper weekend magazines.
The Observer Magazine: one of England's best newspaper magazines
The New Yorker: some say this magazine invented the "profile" format, the classic literary journalism magazine.
Rolling Stone: apart from thier music features Rollingstone has always had a committment to innovative long features about a range of issues
