Former New York Times Editor On Writing To Get Someone's Attention — And Maybe Changing Their Mind
Former editor Trish Hall has written a new how-to book, "Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side." She joins host Lisa Mullins to talk about the book.
As a former editor, Trish Hall has seen a lot of bad submissions to the New York Times Op-Ed page.
She’s now written the how-to book, “Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side.” Hall joins Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins to talk about the book.
Times’ Op-Ed Pieces Mentioned On Air
- To Unite the Earth, Connect It by Bono and Mark Zuckerberg
- My Medical Choice by Angelina Jolie
- Don’t Shun Conservative Professors by Arthur C. Brooks
Book Excerpt: ‘Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side’
by Trish Hall
For almost five years, as the person in charge of Op-Ed for The New York Times, I was immersed in argument, in passion, in ideas. I oversaw a dozen editors who read submissions from both the august and the unknown, all eager to be heard. Two assistants, looking for gems, pored over the hundreds of unsolicited manuscripts that arrived each week. I too read
