Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism.… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed.… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share
