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By Jacqui BanaszynskiAt the many writing workshops I lead, the primary struggles reporters raise involve, duh, writing. But when six health-reporting fellows gathered recently, the challenges they brought to the…

By Jacqui BanaszynskiReporter friends after swap tales about the stories and tips they picked up from cabbies when they travel on assignments. That’s seldom been successful for me. First, I’m…

A reporter sat with people in "the worst moments of their lives" but froze when it came time to talk to a famous writer

By Polly Basore WenzlPicture a sandy-haired Dennis the Menace, 11 years old.He wandered into News Connect, the Wichita Journalism Collaborative’s pop-up newsroom, in the downtown library on a recent day.Our…

By Jacqui BanaszynskiPrison stories are a special challenge for journalists. The gold standards of journalism are relevance and relatability. But it can be hard for many readers and listeners, if…

Journalist and nonfiction author Lauren Kessler spent three years teaching — and learning from — men who wrote their stories behind bars

Samantha Michaels of Mother Jones followed the story of a woman given harsher punishment than the man who abused her daughter — and her

By Jacqui BanaszynskiEverybody talks about the weather — more than ever these days. But not everybody gets death threats for their comments.Yet that’s what happened to Chris Gloninger, a chief…

‘We were taking a big leap of faith and trusting readers to be able to figure it out themselves,’ says investigative reporter Raquel Rutledge

By Jacqui BanaszynskiAfter our mother died, my brothers and I gathered to clean out and sell our childhood home. An inevitable part of that process was to sort through her…