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Narrative of Oregon town’s hellish wildfire experience is a lesson in deadline writing

Narrative of Oregon town’s hellish wildfire experience is a lesson in deadline writing

This past Labor Day, three reporters in Salem, Oregon were enjoying the holiday weekend. They’d done a good job preparing stories in advance so they wouldn’t have to scramble the…
September 29, 2020
What challenged Andrea Pitzer to write what she calls her best work ever

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

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 the "Beyonce of earthquakes" uses storytelling to explain science

How the “Beyonce of earthquakes” uses storytelling to explain science

Call her the “Beyonce of earthquakes” or simply “the Earthquake Lady.” But when the foundations get shaky — whether it’s during a temblor or, now, a pandemic — Lucy Jones…
August 4, 2020
"... between broad statistical data and intimate personal disclosure."

“… between broad statistical data and intimate personal disclosure.”

As the daily read of crucial issues — racial injustice, the pandemic, the political divide, the battered environment, the brutal economy — expands and deepens, I keep looking for those…
July 17, 2020
Congratulations to the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners

Congratulations to the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners

There are awards upon awards in journalism. But since its launch in 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes have set the gold standard for newspaper reporting, writing, commentary, photography and more. The…
May 4, 2020
Can deep reporting answer the ultimate coronavirus question: How will it end?

Can deep reporting answer the ultimate coronavirus question: How will it end?

One of the things that distinguishes the coronavirus outbreak from disasters that have come before is the disorienting flood of research and information. Credit — or blame — that on…
April 21, 2020
Writing the character, contradictions and soul of a place

Writing the character, contradictions and soul of a place

America’s quadrennial obsession with Iowa has passed like the season’s last snow storm, there for a turbulent moment but forgotten three days later. The nail-biting over bad election apps and…
March 24, 2020
A blocked writer rediscovers her voice as she discovers America's national parks

A blocked writer rediscovers her voice as she discovers America’s national parks

I started the year on the road. I left a job of more than seven years — a happy, busy job that taught me so much until it didn’t and…
February 7, 2020
Look at clouds from all sides now — before they're gone

Look at clouds from all sides now — before they’re gone

When Reuters, the venerable global news agency, hired narrative veteran Kari Howard to be its first Storytelling Editor, she brought three principles to guide reporters in the field: Examine closely.…
November 1, 2019