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Plus: The Black List's Franklin Leonard on journalism and Hollywood, and finding stories ‘in the strange minutiae’

The producer and founder reflects on 20 years of celebrating and supporting screenwriters, and how true stories become entertainment

Plus: Kent Babb on a daughter's struggle to connect with her father, and European Press Prize winners

The Washington Post reporter tells the story of Jaedan Brown, and her father Corwin Brown's mental illness potentially caused by CTE.

Tech reporter Drew Harwell on the Nieman Storyboard podcast, plus Paige Williams visits a historic New York City resting place

Podcast: The Washington Post writer shares his experience covering the intersection of technology, politics, and culture in an era of distrust and division

Filmmaker Matt Wolf on the making of "Pee-wee as Himself," plus Bloomberg’s report on one city's relationship with a private ICE detention center

Rachel Adams-Heard, Polly Mosendz, and Fola Akinnibi looked at local government agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain immigrants in New Mexico

The Marshall Project's Akiba Solomon on the language of incarceration. Plus: Roxane Gay's syllabus, podcast budgets, and finding a story hook

Nieman Storyboard podcast: Solomon discusses The Language Project and collaborating with incarcerated writers.