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“The house was a fawn-brown color with curved white interior walls and my dead grandmother’s purple velvet drapes still hanging from the curtain rods.

“The house was a fawn-brown color with curved white interior walls and my dead grandmother’s purple velvet drapes still hanging from the curtain rods.

— Cally Carswell from "Drought, dread and family in the American Southwest" in High Country News
July 25, 2019
"Righteous rage" and powerful journalism

“Righteous rage” and powerful journalism

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, now in its 15th year, has grown into one of the the premier journalistic gatherings in the United States. This year’s conference centered…
July 23, 2019

“Sometimes a story deserves a new look.”

—Investigative reporter Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald
July 19, 2019
Stories that beget stories

Stories that beget stories

Chuck Haga with his reading partner and story muse, granddaughter Emma. Haga says they have both aged since this picture was taken, but that Emma wears it better.EDITOR’S NOTE: Metrics…
July 18, 2019
Haunting old photos — and happenstance — launch a search for answers

Haunting old photos — and happenstance — launch a search for answers

 At first glance, it might seem an unlikely story from a veteran investigative reporter.  But it was those investigative instincts and skills that James Eli Shiffer used to report and…
July 17, 2019
Unearthing L.A. through a tribal tongue

Unearthing L.A. through a tribal tongue

A team at The Los Angeles Times builds a multimedia narrative to explore an almost-lost language, and reimagine the region as it once was
July 10, 2019

The LA Times resurrects Column One

A signature space for writers is revived and reimagined for the digital age (Creative risk encouraged. But nut graphs? Not so much)
July 9, 2019
"Truth is whatever you can get enough people to believe."

“Truth is whatever you can get enough people to believe.”

—Jack Holmes, politics editor at Esquire
July 5, 2019
A hitchhiker's guide to a galaxy of stories

A hitchhiker’s guide to a galaxy of stories

Michael Paterniti meditates on hitting the road as a way to discover the wonders of the world, and the intimacies and risks of human connections
July 5, 2019
An investigative journalist tries his hand at a true crime series for middle schoolers

An investigative journalist tries his hand at a true crime series for middle schoolers

As a reporter, Bryan Denson seems to have done it all — working the police beat, writing longform narratives, teaming up on big investigative features, and producing a nonfiction book.…
July 2, 2019