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Pitching the IWMF: Focus on undercovered issues, think big and dare to stretch

Pitching the IWMF: Focus on undercovered issues, think big and dare to stretch

For 30 years, the International Women's Media Fund has helped fund women journalists and ambitious projects around the world
October 22, 2020
Story roots and consequences

Story roots and consequences

Putting an issue in context means reporting its origins and exploring its implications
October 20, 2020
An intimate narrative from inside a COVID-afflicted nursing home — reported by phone

An intimate narrative from inside a COVID-afflicted nursing home — reported by phone

Katie Engelhart on the reality of nursing homes and the undercovered issue of elder care in America: "We all think we won't end up in a nursing home."
October 7, 2020
How a viral tweet led to a sensitive story on family, race and America

How a viral tweet led to a sensitive story on family, race and America

It was the kind of tweet a lot of people would thumb past with no more than a quick “like.” But when Jaweed Kaleem read about a one-woman Black Lives…
September 30, 2020
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
How Reveal investigated the systemic abuse of America’s caregivers

How Reveal investigated the systemic abuse of America’s caregivers

An investigative series exposed the entrenched practice of exploiting care workers for profit, giving silenced and underpaid caregivers a voice
September 22, 2020
"They told me their stories, gave them to me for keeping, which I did, always listening, always remembering."

“They told me their stories, gave them to me for keeping, which I did, always listening, always remembering.”

—From the novel "The Water Dancer" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
September 15, 2020
How reporting through time and place reveals character

How reporting through time and place reveals character

ESPN's Wright Thompson returns to an old subject — Michael Jordan — and finds a fresh story in the haunted soil of his history
August 28, 2020
One cold case murder. Two narrative forms.

One cold case murder. Two narrative forms.

A magazine writer and a documentary filmmaker discuss how storytelling platforms shaped their coverage of the same cold case hate murder
August 26, 2020
Two veteran newswomen learn podcasting to retell the story of women's suffrage

Two veteran newswomen learn podcasting to retell the story of women’s suffrage

Award-winning journalists Ellen Goodman and Lynn Sherr take a deep and intimate dive into the history of the 19th Amendment in "She Votes!"
August 18, 2020