Linton Weeks
Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.
Weeks is originally from Tennessee, and graduated from Rhodes College in 1976. He was the founding editor of Southern Magazine in 1986. The magazine was bought — and crushed — in 1989 by Time-Warner. In 1990, he was named managing editor of The Washington Post's Sunday magazine. Four years later, he became the first director of the newspaper's website, Washingtonpost.com. From 1995 until 2008, he was a staff writer in the Style section of The Washington Post.
He currently lives in a suburb of Washington with the artist Jan Taylor Weeks. In 2009, they created The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation to honor their beloved sons.
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Couples nowadays are tying the knot in original ways — like some pioneering newlyweds in America's past. -
For 50 years, this little-known archive of civil rights activities has gone pretty much untouched and untapped. -
In the mid-1970s, photographer Roy Colmer cruised the streets of New York City. The result: A very particular perception of doors. -
The complicated story behind the simple, repetitive wordplay jest.
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Hundreds of outspoken African-Americans moved America toward emancipation.
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Did daring stories of fugitive slaves perhaps move the national political needle toward abolition?
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Contemporary logrollers believe that the historical practice provides today's athletes a good, balanced workout. And that it's as easy as, well, as falling off a log. -
Whatever happens with the investigation of Deflategate, there is sometimes a blurry line between gaining a competitive advantage and downright cheating. -
During World War II, the Japanese aimed thousands of wind-borne explosives at North America. To this day, many have not been accounted for.
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As the sun sets on The Protojournalist storytelling project, I reflect on the question: What have I done?
