Print Journalism • Anna Hiatt

REPORTING

Print Stories

Reporter covering topics from the environment to trauma

PUBLISHING

Tales From the Great Disruption

Co-author of a book about insights and lessons from journalism's technological transformation

JOURNALISM STARTUPS

The War Horse

Co-founder and Founding Editorial Director from 2015 – 2019

JOURNALISM STARTUPS

The Big Roundtable

Founding Publisher of The Big Roundtable (renamed The Delacorte Review)

Reveal from The Center of Investigative Reporting

Journalism Startups

The War Horse

Co-founder + Editorial Director
2015 – 2019

I'm the co-founder and was the editorial director of The War Horse, a publication dedicated to finding and publishing stories of the human consequences of post-9/11 conflicts. I set the tone, tenor, and spirit of the publication by virtue of the writers I chose to work with and the candor and bravery that I demanded from each story.

As The War Horse's top editor, I cultivated relationships with and developed writers, most of whom are post-9/11 veterans or active-duty service members and their families, and guided them in telling hard true stories unsparingly and in a way that was accessible to civilians with no prior knowledge of the military experience. The first-person stories I cultivated more often than not grappled with post-traumatic stress and moral injury.

I oversaw all contributors, including our copy editor and social media coordinator, and acted as the publication's copywriter, ensuring that all editorial products and fundraising documents had a consistent style.

The Big Roundtable

Founding Publisher
2012 – 2016
(Renamed The Delacorte Review in 2018)

As the founding publisher of The Big Roundtable, I oversaw the publication's visual design and aesthetic branding and worked in tandem with the founder to ensure that the publication would have a place in the journalism world long after the post-digital revolution longform journalism bubble of the early 2010s had burst. We went back to the very foundations of why humans tell each other stories, and how we keep our listeners and readers engaged. Every Big Roundtable story had to qualify has a "yarn" — to hook the reader from the first sentence to the last.

The Big Roundtable, renamed The Delacorte Review after Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism acquired the publication in 2018, is a teaching tool. Whether cubs or veterans, journalists were treated to an exceptionally patient editing experience, one informed by curiosity and a determination to help the writer to find and tell the absolute best story. Unlike other publications, The Big Roundtable had a flexible publication schedule, giving the writer and editor the freedom to publish when and only when the story was "there."

Our editor, a master of the craft, and founder, a decades-long journalist and tenured professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, taught me to edit from the seed of an idea for a story through the final edit.

Tales From the Great Disruption

How have recent technological transformations changed journalism?

The people who fuel our civic conversation—reporters, writers, storytellers—have been asking each other that question a lot lately. So have people who consume their work. Both agree: Waves of technological change have greatly altered the news. How, exactly? Hard to say.

This book, out in 2015, grew out of reporting I did during my research fellowship at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.

Authors
Michael Shapiro, Anna Hiatt, and Mike Hoyt

Journalism Startups

The War Horse

Co-founder + Editorial Director
2015 – 2019

The Big Roundtable

Founding Publisher
2012 – 2016
(Renamed The Delacorte Review in 2018)

Tales From the Great Disruption

How have recent technological transformations changed journalism?

The people who fuel our civic conversation—reporters, writers, storytellers—have been asking each other that question a lot lately. So have people who consume their work. Both agree: Waves of technological change have greatly altered the news. How, exactly? Hard to say.

This book grew out of reporting I did during my research fellowship at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.

Authors
Michael Shapiro, Anna Hiatt, and Mike Hoyt

Publisher
Big Roundtable Books

Publication Year
2015

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