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Q&A: Greg Bishop on a quarterback, a suicide and a search for answers

Q&A: Greg Bishop on a quarterback, a suicide and a search for answers

The Sports Illustrated senior writer uses intimate reporting and intricate outlining to weave personal tragedy with societal controversy
July 31, 2018
Elliott Almond
Learning to read: The daily news as information and inspiration

Learning to read: The daily news as information and inspiration

Editor’s note: Our third Shop Class – part of our Story Craft posts – grew out of breaking news stories and blogs that offer rich lessons on how to do the…
July 27, 2018
Jacqui Banaszynski
"But the sea, too, took its toll."

“But the sea, too, took its toll.”

—Jason Horowitz of the New York Times, reporting on deadline about the deadly wildfires outside Athens, Greece
July 25, 2018
Jacqui Banaszynski
Learning to see: A landscape of ice, a blind boy's eyes, a grizzly bear and a wall stain

Learning to see: A landscape of ice, a blind boy’s eyes, a grizzly bear and a wall stain

How writers use color to develop metaphor, meaning and emotion
July 25, 2018
Jacqui Banaszynski

“Gary Robinson died hungry.”

—Pulitzer Prize winning crime reporter and novelist Edna Buchanan
July 21, 2018
Tom Warhover

Take Two: Avi Selk on spiders, aggregation and writing fast

In the second of a two-parter, the Washington Post reporter describes his process for finding fresh stories from previously published work
July 19, 2018
Rebecca Boyle
Avi Selk eulogizes the long life and too-soon death of Spider 16, and what she taught us

Avi Selk eulogizes the long life and too-soon death of Spider 16, and what she taught us

In his elegiac profile, the Washington Post general assignment reporter talks about finding gems in previously published work, and doing it all on deadline
July 18, 2018
Rebecca Boyle
Can you say ... Thanks, and we miss you?

Can you say … Thanks, and we miss you?

On Mister Rogers, Tom Junod and the art of reverence
July 13, 2018
Matt Tullis

“She’s just telling what’s real out there that she sees.”

—Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Anne Tyler on discovering Eudora Welty
July 11, 2018
Jacqui Banaszynski

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

—First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
July 4, 2018
Jacqui Banaszynski