Author

Polly Basore Wenzl

Polly Basore Wenzl first embraced narrative journalism in 1999, acting as editor of her now-husband Roy Wenzl’s groundbreaking work for The Wichita Eagle. She left in 2003, doing writing-focused work in nonprofit and education sectors before returning to local news as editor of the non-profit startup The Wichita Beacon last year. She is the author of “Apocalyptic Polly: A Pandemic Memoir.”

"Are you writing this down?"

“Are you writing this down?”

By Polly Basore WenzlPicture a sandy-haired Dennis the Menace, 11 years old.He wandered into News Connect, the Wichita Journalism Collaborative’s pop-up newsroom, in the downtown library on a recent day.Our…