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Michael Kruse

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Michael Kruse is an award-winning staff writer on the enterprise team at the Tampa Bay Times. He recently gave a TEDx talk and had a story make the anthology Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists. His “Just One Question,” an occasional column, has covered stories by Lane DeGregory, Gene Weingarten, and others.

Just one question … for Michael Graff, on the death of Earl Badu

Big buzz earlier this month when Michael Graff‘s story on the suicide of former University of Maryland basketball walk-on Earl Badu hit SB Nation‘s longform wing: You know the wish can’t come true, but people…
Just one question ... for Gene Weingarten, on the Jeffrey MacDonald case

Just one question … for Gene Weingarten, on the Jeffrey MacDonald case

Everybody's read his latest? Great.WILMINGTON, N.C. — They are old men now, the doctor and the lawyer, ancient adversaries confronting each other one last time.The doctor shuffles into the courtroom, his…
Just one question ... for Lane DeGregory, on the presidential hugger

Just one question … for Lane DeGregory, on the presidential hugger

My Pulitzer-winning pod-mate Lane DeGregory in the Tampa Bay Times, on the Florida pizza man who famously gave Barack Obama that bear hug:FORT PIERCE — After talking to MSNBC and Inside Edition, while waiting to be miked…
Just one question ... for Justin Heckert, on the kid who scored 138 points in one game

Just one question … for Justin Heckert, on the kid who scored 138 points in one game

HeckertJustin Heckert had a great late 2012 with stories in Esquire and the New York Times magazine, and then this piece in Sports Illustrated, “The Loneliest Number,” which is about Jack…
“Why’s this so good?” No. 22: Hank Stuever on 9-ish

“Why’s this so good?” No. 22: Hank Stuever on 9-ish

There are two stories from the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, that to me remain better than all the others. R.W. Apple wrote a news analysis that ran on…