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Editor Seyward Darby: "I definitely want people who are willing to strip a story down to its basics and figure out how to build it back up."

After the Florida condo collapse, Matt Sullivan vowed not to forget a teen survivor. The year-later profile has credibility, empathy and a haunting ending

The public hearings of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol draw on core narrative elements

Bloomberg investigative reporter Esmé Deprez researched a range of death-with-dignity issues after becoming her father's end-of-life partner

A celebrated memoirist returns to her native Texas on a quest to determine if her family stories were true

AP reporter Tim Sullivan found a small town on the Minnesota prairie to explore the political chasms exposed by COVID

Jacob Stern knew nothing about boxing when he set out to ask a painful question: How can a boxer who killed an opponent return to the ring?

Aviv scoured court records, social media and personal journals to reveal the abuses of a system of unregulated Christian boarding schools

Peter Jamison of The Washington Post immerses into the emotional chasm of a family struggling with divergent views and a sudden death

John Woodrow Cox of The Washington Post talks to kids like an adult, sits on their bedroom floors, and doesn't push until they're OK with him