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Notable Narrative: Jason Fagone and “What Bullets Do to Bodies”

Notable Narrative: Jason Fagone and “What Bullets Do to Bodies”

The writer talks about his Huffington Post Highline profile of a trauma surgeon, and wanting readers to get a “visceral sense of what physically happens inside a person when he’s…
June 26, 2017
Davis Harper
5(ish) Questions: Bonnie Ford and "The Promise Rio Couldn't Keep"

5(ish) Questions: Bonnie Ford and “The Promise Rio Couldn’t Keep”

As other outlets predicted disaster for the 2016 Olympics water events, the writer for ESPN's Outside the Lines painted a picture more reflective of the lived human experience than a…
June 22, 2017
Kara Voght

“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”

—Tom Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
June 21, 2017
Kari Howard
Notable Narrative: Susan Dominus and "Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?"

Notable Narrative: Susan Dominus and “Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?”

The New York Times Magazine writer talks about how her controversial story changed her views on non-monogamy -- and made her appreciate her own marriage more
June 20, 2017
Davis Harper
Now's a good time to read some highlights of the global effort to honor Javier Valdez

Now’s a good time to read some highlights of the global effort to honor Javier Valdez

Today, journalists around the world came together to honor slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas on the one-month anniversary of his assassination. The global campaign, known as “Our voice is…
June 15, 2017
Kari Howard
Honoring Mexican journalist Javier Valdez: Today, and always, our voice is our strength

Honoring Mexican journalist Javier Valdez: Today, and always, our voice is our strength

Ricardo Sandoval Palos talks about why he helped organize a global campaign to speak out against violence a month after the muckraker's assassination
June 15, 2017
Julie Schwietert Collazo

“The great mistake is to live in Mexico and to be a journalist.”

—Javier Valdez Cárdenas, from his 2016 book, "Narcoperiodismo"
June 14, 2017
Kari Howard
Annotation Tuesday! Mac McClelland and "Delusion Is the Thing With Feathers"

Annotation Tuesday! Mac McClelland and “Delusion Is the Thing With Feathers”

The writer talks about her hilariously awful trip with extreme birders for Audubon, and her bold choice of having a paragraph consisting of a single exclamation point
June 13, 2017
Katia Savchuk
"The charm and the pain and the humanity" -- what great storytelling is all about

“The charm and the pain and the humanity” — what great storytelling is all about

A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure
June 9, 2017
Kari Howard
5 Questions: Talal Ansari and "Welcome to America: Now Spy on Your Friends"

5 Questions: Talal Ansari and “Welcome to America: Now Spy on Your Friends”

"I think it opened the eyes of people who are so far removed from this kind of world," the BuzzFeed News writer says of his piece about FBI agents pressuring…
June 8, 2017
Alexa Mencia