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Speculation runs hot these days about a return to some kind of post-pandemic normal. Among my employed journalism friends, that raises the question: When do you think you’ll go back?…

A lame inside joke in many of the newsrooms of America: The sports department is also referred to as “the toy department.” After all,  the coverage focuses on games.Until you…

I‘m not sure why a New Yorker story from November 2017 showed up in my social media feed in recent days, but I’m glad it did.I’m from the generation that…

Growing up in California, Francesca Mari found herself in proximity to spaces that felt somewhat foreign. Decades later, her sense of story traces to her desire to understand how the…

In case you missed it:Terry Gross, host of NPR’s “Fresh Air,” had a rich conversation this week (March 9, 2021) with freelance journalist and author Katie Englehart about the legal…

In Australia, where the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the nation’s No. 1 source of news, Anne Barker is a household name, with her stories playing across TV, radio and…

 For Mayukh Sen, a James Beard Award-winning food writer and adjunct professor at NYU, the entry point into food writing has always been the stories of the people behind the…

Daily meanderings that became ephemeral art that became a political statement that became a historical discovery tour have now become a book.A few weeks ago, retired sports editor Cathy Henkel…

Dementia — the inexorable erosion of memory that erases the mind and eventually robs the body of its most basic abilities — is growing to epidemic levels as America ages.…

While reporting for a story, sometimes journalists stop and wonder why they began telling the story in the first place and if it’s truly worth it. So did veteran New…