Strictly Q&A

While reading the news in 2017, filmmaker Erin Lee Carr first saw the “very wide, intense eyes” of Michelle Carter. She looked like a “deer in headlights,” Carr said. At the time, Carter was on trial in Massachussetts on charges of…

As a reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times, Angel Jennings explores issues affecting residents in South Los Angeles. Throughout 2019, she was one of the primary bylines…

A newcomer to a tiny newspaper in rural Texas brings fresh eyes, big-city experience, a drummer's rhythm, and some "swagger" to his editorials

With a cell phone, an eye for evocative detail and 50 pages of notes, Brittny Mejia of the Los Angeles Times turned a day at a grocery store into a…

A veteran foreign correspondent finds a hero tale in a tiny California town: "A story is a story no matter where it takes place."

Four months after acting on impulse, what has a non-journalist local hero learned about the romance and reality of journalism?

Award-winning freelancer and outdoorswoman Eva Holland weaves memoir and research in her debut book "Nerve"

Sally Jenkins has been writing for the sports section of the Washington Post going on 20 years. The Associated Press and the Society for Professional Journalists have named her the…

A veteran journalist discovers the role of story in America's prison system — and "human resilience and grace in the face of adversity"

It’s an all-too-familiar story. Another American factory closes, the latest in a long line in the last three decades that has seen American manufacturing devastated by foreign competition. This time…