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A Canadian radio journalist fell in love with serial narrative podcasts, and is determined to help them find their known place at the storytelling table

Pulitzer-Prize winning feature writer Lane DeGregory shares the techniques behind her vivid storytelling in a new anthology of her stories

By Jacqui BanaszynskiDo anything often enough and long enough and you probably, at times, fall into the occasional rut. I don’t know of any fellow journalist, no matter their age…

Narrative Elements 1: A narrative nonfiction writer and teacher starts a series that explores narrative journalism element by element

By Dale KeigerIf you write for a living and stay with it long enough you will accumulate a bulging folder of journeyman’s work. You don’t renounce it and you don’t…

By Jacqui BanaszynskiThe video screens on the back of airplane seats are small and often smudged. But for many years, when I flew twice a week for work, that’s where…

—Peter Baker of The New York Times on the indictment of former President Donald J. Trump

By Katharine GammonRoy Peter Clark says he never meant to write another book about writing.Clark, a senior scholar at The Poynter Institute, had already written or edited 20 books about…

Miriam Leslie inherited a media empire from her husband, then reinvented it with journalism we take for granted today

By Jacqui BanaszynskiConsider the tease of the writer’s muse. We wait and wait and wait for her to show up, and get more anxious about her absence as deadline nears.…