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‘The goal of art is to seek out something pure and true and to convey it.’ The author of ‘In Open Contempt’ on making sense of history and his own…

In reporting about psilocybin, Robert Sanchez reveals his own story. Plus: True Story Award, Roy Peter Clark, and the Liang-Zhou Nieman Fellowship

Robert Sanchez of 5280 magazine reports on experiments around psilocybin therapy, while also using first person to tell his own story

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