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Empathy as the prime directive in writing about displaced people

Award-winning author Jessica Goudeau says journalists must expand their toolbox to write about the growing issues of displacement

By Madeline Bodin • June 11, 2021

A Syrian woman begs in on a street in downtown Beirut in late May, 2021. The protracted situation of refugees from places like Syria and Myanmar have created a cascade of economic and humanitarian crises.

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Sage writing advice from the editor of Column One

Steve Padilla of the Los Angeles Times urges writers to tune up their writing with song

By Madeline Bodin • June 9, 2021

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