Strictly Q&A

The author and writing instructor shares lessons from reporting for longform features and book projects and managing a freelance career

The former Chicago Tribune columnist shares insights into her decades-long experience as a journalist and writer

The journalist talks about reporting for breaking news stories vs. longer narratives, protecting sources, and finding her path in tech reporting.

"How do you really come to understand the aftermath of a tragedy and the people who are most affected by it?"

As anti-DEI and anti-trans language gets battled in court, the grant writer offers advice on how journalists, writers, and artists should proceed.

"You can take the reader out of that present moment and plop them somewhere else, and it can be meaningful, it can be strategic."

You can learn a lot from a work of nonfiction by seeing whom the author thanks.

Author Glenn Stout has built a following as a freelance editor, giving writers confidence, solutions and sometimes channeling their voice

After a decade of editing, The Atlantic's Family Editor Julie Beck is going to apply her experience to full-time writing of her own stories

Atlantic writer George Packer takes readers to the grounded realities of America's battles over growth, race, climate change and water