Capturing the Story with Jon Lee Anderson

This intensive masterclass in long-form journalism, led by The New Yorker writer, will look at how to perceive a moment and convey its truth in an honest and deliberate way, how to locate the telling detail and how to construct a story structure, how his pieces are built, discerning the details selected and the structural decisions taken to reach the final form.

It will run from 29 July to 1 August 2014. The application deadline is 31 May. Places are limited. For further information, please contact info@laportepeinte.com.

Jon Lee Anderson is an investigative journalist and staff writer for The New Yorker. He has also written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, El País, Harper’s and Time. His books include Guerrillas: Journeys In the Insurgent World, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan, and The Fall of Baghdad. Over the past year, he has reported from Ukraine, Nicaragua, Mali, Cuba and Venezuela for The New Yorker.