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Embedding with EMTs to write about the first line of COVID first responders

Embedding with EMTs to write about the first line of COVID first responders

Harried doctors and nurses, gowned in eerie layers, race to the call of codes. Hospital hallways overflow with the near-dead. Undertakers scramble to make space as body after body arrives,…
May 21, 2021
A narrative on the political divide reported from the inside-out

A narrative on the political divide reported from the inside-out

A turbulent 2020 drew to a close. Baseless claims about U.S. presidential election roiled through the ranks of Trump supporters, gaining momentum as the inauguration of a new president neared.…
April 20, 2021
Some uncomfortable challenges facing journalism

Some uncomfortable challenges facing journalism

Some core questions I have about the challenges facing journalists were revived by a few things I read last week. None were surprising, but all carried nagging concerns that date…
April 13, 2021
Profiling homeless house-sitters to humanize the housing crisis in America

Profiling homeless house-sitters to humanize the housing crisis in America

Growing up in California, Francesca Mari found herself in proximity to spaces that felt somewhat foreign. Decades later, her sense of story traces to her desire to understand how the…
March 12, 2021
What it takes to cover a foreign country as a woman and during a pandemic

What it takes to cover a foreign country as a woman and during a pandemic

In Australia, where the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the nation’s No. 1 source of news, Anne Barker is a household name, with her stories playing across TV, radio and…
March 10, 2021
How and why Katie Engelhart followed a woman's journey to her "final exit"

How and why Katie Engelhart followed a woman’s journey to her “final exit”

Dementia — the inexorable erosion of memory that erases the mind and eventually robs the body of its most basic abilities — is growing to epidemic levels as America ages.…
March 3, 2021
Go behind the scenes of four 2020 George Polk Award winners

Go behind the scenes of four 2020 George Polk Award winners

The George Polk Awards were established 73 years ago to honor George Polk, a CBS correspondent who was killed while covering the civil war in Greece. They now rank among…
February 26, 2021
How a national correspondent gained trust to cover COVID in a tiny Kansas town

How a national correspondent gained trust to cover COVID in a tiny Kansas town

Trevor Hughes likes to tell people he grew up on a dirt road next to an apple orchard in Vermont, where his parents received The Burlington Free Press every day.…
February 25, 2021
Who, How and Why? What we can learn from an interview with the Super Bowl streaker

Who, How and Why? What we can learn from an interview with the Super Bowl streaker

Curiosity grounds all good journalism. Following up on curiosity — wondering about everything, and then caring to find out — is what makes journalism soar.Lane DeGregory finds and follows stories…
February 12, 2021
How the magic of mushrooms inspired magical science writing about ecology

How the magic of mushrooms inspired magical science writing about ecology

Ferris Jabr follows a forest ecologist into the woods to listen to the conversations that happen above and below ground
February 3, 2021