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5(ish) Questions: Mary Pols and the rural lyricism of "Death of a Dairyman"

5(ish) Questions: Mary Pols and the rural lyricism of “Death of a Dairyman”

The Portland Press Herald writer talks about her story on a man who connected a community, and chafing at the "Cabot Cove-ization" of Maine writing
July 13, 2017
Honoring Mexican journalist Javier Valdez: Today, and always, our voice is our strength

Honoring Mexican journalist Javier Valdez: Today, and always, our voice is our strength

Ricardo Sandoval Palos talks about why he helped organize a global campaign to speak out against violence a month after the muckraker's assassination
June 15, 2017
Annotation Tuesday! Mac McClelland and "Delusion Is the Thing With Feathers"

Annotation Tuesday! Mac McClelland and “Delusion Is the Thing With Feathers”

The writer talks about her hilariously awful trip with extreme birders for Audubon, and her bold choice of having a paragraph consisting of a single exclamation point
June 13, 2017
"The charm and the pain and the humanity" -- what great storytelling is all about

“The charm and the pain and the humanity” — what great storytelling is all about

A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure
June 9, 2017
In Arab world, an ancient tradition of oral storytelling gets a 21st century spin

In Arab world, an ancient tradition of oral storytelling gets a 21st century spin

In the past, "hakawati" would recount legends or fables; today, Moth-like events often tackle social issues or process trauma from war
June 6, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Phoebe Zerwick and "The Last Days of Darryl Hunt"

5(ish) Questions: Phoebe Zerwick and “The Last Days of Darryl Hunt”

The writer talks about how her reporting on a wrongfully convicted man changed his life -- and how she had to write the ending, however unhappy
May 30, 2017
The truth must be told: a conversation with slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez

The truth must be told: a conversation with slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez

In this translation of a haunting interview given just months before he was gunned down, the crusading reporter talks of telling "stories of love in the midst of corpses hanging…
May 22, 2017
Fake news and true facts, and the licenses taken in pursuit of narrative

Fake news and true facts, and the licenses taken in pursuit of narrative

All journalism is a kind of fiction, one writer argues, because of the intercession of the reporter; as our attitudes on truth and nonfiction have grown more atomized, the most…
May 18, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Legendary editor Gene Roberts reflects on a lifetime in journalism

5(ish) Questions: Legendary editor Gene Roberts reflects on a lifetime in journalism

As filmmakers seek funding for a documentary about the newsman who transformed The Philadelphia Inquirer in the 1970s and '80s, he talks about how his reporters zigged instead of zagged…
May 3, 2017
5(ish) Questions: David Grann and "Killers of the Flower Moon"

5(ish) Questions: David Grann and “Killers of the Flower Moon”

The author and New Yorker writer talks about his book on a sinister campaign against Osage Indians who had become fabulously wealthy from oil -- and what the murders, and…
April 18, 2017