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2022 Power of Narrative: Debbie Cenziper on the reporting-writing partnership

2022 Power of Narrative: Debbie Cenziper on the reporting-writing partnership

Editor’s note: This is one of five posts from the 2022 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. For other takeaways, see Ellen Barry on first-person narratives and Lizzie Johnson…
April 26, 2022
A successful investigative career and a vision led Jim Morris to take a risk

A successful investigative career and a vision led Jim Morris to take a risk

The Pivot: Neither the pandemic nor uncertainty blocked Morris' launch of a start-up devoted to public health reporting
March 18, 2022
The pioneering narrative work of "girl stunt reporters"

The pioneering narrative work of “girl stunt reporters”

How Nellie Bly and a sisterhood of crusaders foreshadowed today's narrative nonfiction
February 24, 2022
How a reporter found the true story behind a false story of sex trafficking

How a reporter found the true story behind a false story of sex trafficking

Jessica Contrera of The Washington Post revealed the numerous victims of a viral internet thread, from a retailer to a 13-year-old girl
February 15, 2022
Reporting trauma: Moni Basu on following an earthquake survivor

Reporting trauma: Moni Basu on following an earthquake survivor

The former CNN reporter returned to Haiti several times to follow a young woman who had been trapped in the rubble
February 10, 2022
Viewing the COVID divide through tensions in one rural community

Viewing the COVID divide through tensions in one rural community

AP reporter Tim Sullivan found a small town on the Minnesota prairie to explore the political chasms exposed by COVID
February 8, 2022
Reporting trauma: Jessica Ravitz on farmer suicides

Reporting trauma: Jessica Ravitz on farmer suicides

Ravitz made time and space for a daughter and son to talk about their father's death in hopes of helping others
February 3, 2022
When writing sparks writing

When writing sparks writing

Lines from a Muriel Rukeyser poem echoed forward into the heart of a Christmas movie starring Dame Maggie Smith
January 28, 2022
An obit gets honest and goes viral

An obit gets honest and goes viral

The son of a bawdy woman talks about writing an irreverent obituary to match his mom's irreverent life
January 25, 2022
How Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker exposed the "troubled teen industry"

How Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker exposed the “troubled teen industry”

Aviv scoured court records, social media and personal journals to reveal the abuses of a system of unregulated Christian boarding schools
January 6, 2022