Strictly Q&A

Washington Post narrative writer Eli Saslow answers an essential question: "How'd he get that guy to talk to him?"

The Sports Illustrated senior writer uses intimate reporting and intricate outlining to weave personal tragedy with societal controversy

In the second of a two-parter, the Washington Post reporter describes his process for finding fresh stories from previously published work

In his elegiac profile, the Washington Post general assignment reporter talks about finding gems in previously published work, and doing it all on deadline

The multimedia interactive about climate change in the Marshall Islands is compellingly told through the eyes of three children

The author spent nearly 10 years on his project to show climate change in the extreme micro, telling the stories of two Nicaraguan women

The digital editor of obituaries talks about finally giving women and people of color their due -- and how she's been "blown away" by the reaction

In this Vanity Fair piece, a freelancer takes readers on a wild ride in a bulletproof car with a Kurdish fighter turned savior

The audio vignettes interrupt the expected with the voices and sounds of life on Cape Cod (including the sound of scallops clapping)

Dallas Morning News columnist Dave Lieber says he uses the creative writing techniques of New Journalism to help readers with their problems