Strictly Q&A

5 Questions: Abigail Keel and the RadioLab episode "Debatable"

5 Questions: Abigail Keel and the RadioLab episode “Debatable”

The young journalist, who explored the privileged world of debating societies and found a student who defies the stereotypes, talks about the podcasting ethos
5(ish) Questions: Photographer Stuart Palley and "Terra Flamma: Wildfires at Night"

5(ish) Questions: Photographer Stuart Palley and “Terra Flamma: Wildfires at Night”

The journalist talks about his remarkable (and otherworldly) chronicle of California’s never-ending season of drought-induced wildfires
5 Questions:  Nathaniel Rich and "The Invisible Catastrophe"

5 Questions: Nathaniel Rich and “The Invisible Catastrophe”

Tomorrow’s journalists exploring the masters of today Jacqui Banaszynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who now is an endowed Knight Chair  professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Last semester,…
5(ish) Questions: Peter Frick-Wright and "What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?"

5(ish) Questions: Peter Frick-Wright and “What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?”

The Outside magazine writer climbed to a 20,000-foot glacier to try to find out why a plane crashed mysteriously 31 years ago, and wrote a story that's Sherlock Holmes meets…
5 Questions: Pop-Up Magazine's Doug McGray and the pleasures of live storytelling

5 Questions: Pop-Up Magazine’s Doug McGray and the pleasures of live storytelling

The editor of the ephemeral multimedia performances talks about bringing journalism to life onstage, and meeting the coolest people in the audiences
5(ish) Questions: Bill Sanderson and the JFK assassination "Bulletins from Dallas"

5(ish) Questions: Bill Sanderson and the JFK assassination “Bulletins from Dallas”

The new biography of UPI reporter Merriman "Smitty" Smith, who won a Pulitzer for his coverage of the biggest political shocker of the 20th century, has so much journalism drama…
5 Questions: Alex Tizon and "In the Land of Missing Persons"

5 Questions: Alex Tizon and “In the Land of Missing Persons”

The Pulitzer winner (and two-time finalist) talks about covering the aftermath of a school shooting a different way: "the truth is obviously so much uglier and so much messier and…
5 Questions: Hanna Rosin and "The Silicon Valley Suicides"

5 Questions: Hanna Rosin and “The Silicon Valley Suicides”

Tomorrow’s journalists exploring the masters of today Jacqui Banaszynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who now is an endowed Knight Chair  professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Last semester,…
5(ish) Questions: Charlotte Magazine and the shooting of Keith Scott

5(ish) Questions: Charlotte Magazine and the shooting of Keith Scott

Editor Michael Graff talks about how his small staff refused to be just "the magazine that gives you the best restaurants and places to live" and covered the unrest in…
5(ish) Questions: The creators of "visual narrative start-up" Primer Stories

5(ish) Questions: The creators of “visual narrative start-up” Primer Stories

Tim Lillis and Joe Alterio talk about combining written stories and visual ones on a site they hope will appeal to both longform lovers and listicle lushes.