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Davis Harper

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Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

Shane Bauer is no stranger to prisons. In 2009, when he was a freelance journalist living in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iranian border guards arrested him and two others when they accidentally…
Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and "The Man in the Woods"

Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and “The Man in the Woods”

Ashley Powers spent the first decade of her career at the Los Angeles Times, working her way up from intern to breaking news reporter to national correspondent. When she left…
Annotation Tuesday! Jesse Katz goes “Inside the San Quentin Marathon”

Annotation Tuesday! Jesse Katz goes “Inside the San Quentin Marathon”

For many of his 30-plus years in the journalism business, Jesse Katz has been covering crime. Back in the early 1990s, his former employer The Los Angeles Times assigned him…
Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe on “The life and times of Strider Wolf”

Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe on “The life and times of Strider Wolf”

Sarah Schweitzer has spent almost two decades honing her narrative instincts at The Boston Globe and the St. Petersburg Times. In April 2015 she was acknowledged by the Pulitzer Prize…
Annotation Tuesday! Matt Negrin and "Silence in the Favela"

Annotation Tuesday! Matt Negrin and “Silence in the Favela”

Matt Negrin writes politics, not sports. Just 29, the Bloomberg Politics reporter’s first job after college was live-blogging about President Obama for Politico, and he’s also written for ABC’s World News. Two years…
Joshua Hammer: “I’ve never been in this kind of hot zone before”

Joshua Hammer: “I’ve never been in this kind of hot zone before”

Joshua Hammer started his foreign correspondent’s life as a rotating bureau chief for Newsweek from 1992 to 2006. He’s now a contributing editor to Smithsonian and Outside magazines, and contributes…