Search results for “5 questions” Showing 783 results Wisdom from Melissa Fay Greene about deep reporting on sensitive subjects If the first rule of nonfiction is “write what you know,” then Melissa Fay Greene has embraced this principle like few others.She has spent her career chronicling the interior lives… September 23, 2020 How Reveal investigated the systemic abuse of America’s caregivers Reporters are always hunting for timely news pegs to resurface evergreen stories. More than a year after Jennifer Gollan’s arresting investigation into labor abuses against caregivers, coronavirus has offered a… September 22, 2020 How limitations — COVID, budgets, access and more — can spark fresh ideas When the quarantine began in March, the lifestyles production unit at GBH Studio Six in Boston — which is responsible for a range of programming content, from cooking and travel… September 17, 2020 What challenged Andrea Pitzer to write what she calls her best work ever When she set out from Russian port of Murmansk on a 60-foot sailboat headed to Novaya Zemlya in August 2019, journalist Andrea Pitzer had few expectations. She hoped to visit… September 10, 2020 Economic Hardship Reporting Project seeks story pitches that personalize poverty The Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) was born from a situation of precisely that: financial insecurity. Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the seminal 1996 work, “Nickel and Dimed,” co-founded the journalism… September 2, 2020 How reporting through time and place reveals character With transportation stymied by a pandemic, Wright Thompson couldn’t exactly hop on a plane to research a story on Michael Jordan. Instead, the ESPN senior reporter built a time machine,… August 28, 2020 One cold case murder. Two narrative forms. On Oct. 9, 1983, the body of Timothy Wayne Coggins, a 23-year-old Black man, was found in the woods off a power line easement in Griffin, Georgia. He had been… August 26, 2020 Rewriting the “hero’s journey” to fit a feminine narrative A writer on a hunt to understand classic story structure ponders politics, movies and her grandmother's life, and searches for a journey of their own August 19, 2020 Two veteran newswomen learn podcasting to retell the story of women’s suffrage Today marks the centennial of the 19th amendment, which says “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or… August 18, 2020 Bearing witness inside a funeral home at the pitch of the COVID pandemic Josh Sanburn went deep into a place of death — and found a story that teems with life.In “The Last of the First Responders,” published in June in Vanity Fair, … August 14, 2020 Previous 1 … 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 … 79 Next