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Everybody needs an editor

Everybody needs an editor

Michael Kruse and Bill Duryea reflect on a 16-year partnership. Plus: Telling a family's story, without everyone's participation.
Michael Kruse & Bill Duryea: Lessons from a 16-year reporter-editor partnership

Michael Kruse & Bill Duryea: Lessons from a 16-year reporter-editor partnership

The journalists share how they supported and learned from each other at the Tampa Bay Times and Politico.
Finding your book's main characters

Finding your book’s main characters

Megan Greenwell's “Bad Company,” annotated. Plus: What makes dialogue work on the page?
Megan Greenwell on holding out for the once-in-a-lifetime book idea

Megan Greenwell on holding out for the once-in-a-lifetime book idea

The author of “Bad Company” on the merits of waiting until she was seized by an obsession and couldn’t let go
Revisiting the historical narrative in a reported memoir

Revisiting the historical narrative in a reported memoir

Sara Kehaulani Goo tells a personal story about Maui. Plus: what happens when your subjects don't like your story?
Resisting the ‘tidy narrative’

Resisting the ‘tidy narrative’

Mallary Tenore Tarpley on how to ask deeper questions about illness and recovery. Plus: advice for sharpening your podcast skills
‘A Noiseless Flash’: Hiroshima, 80 years later

‘A Noiseless Flash’: Hiroshima, 80 years later

The power of one story, and the need for many. Plus: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on “getting your protagonist out of the house”
A cure for story paralysis

A cure for story paralysis

Lane DeGregory's advice on not playing it safe, plus: how to interview shy people
Two evergreen lessons in writing and reporting

Two evergreen lessons in writing and reporting

Author Dana A. Williams on Toni Morrison's influential work as an editor, plus Mina Kimes and Pablo Torre on the pitfalls of writing about athletes.
How to tell stories about life and death (and everything in between)

How to tell stories about life and death (and everything in between)

Line Vaaben and photographer Jacob Ehrbahn visit a palliative care unit for terminally ill patients for the Denmark-based outlet Politiken