Strictly Q&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…

 Last month, journalist, filmmaker and military veteran Zack Baddorf made a plea, in an essay for Nieman Reports, that more veterans consider careers in journalism and more newsrooms hire veterans.…

Venerable breaking news site Reuters ventures into narrative journalism with former L.A. Times and Storyboard editor Kari Howard at the helm

Sunday, December 28, 1986. An ordinary day, much like any other. Except in two operating rooms at Fairfax Hospital in suburban Virginia, where something extraordinary was about to happen.In one…

Two days to deadline. You haven’t written a word — just scribbles and a few sad-faced glyphs in the margins of a skeletal outline. You’re surrounded by great raw material…