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How the voices of five young women from remote, coastal Maine challenge stereotypes

How the voices of five young women from remote, coastal Maine challenge stereotypes

Gigi Georges is a self-described city kid. She is a long-time policy advocate and advisor who was born and raised in Brooklyn and spent most of her life moving between…
June 16, 2021
A profile of a film-score composer that soars like his music

A profile of a film-score composer that soars like his music

Nicholas Britell’s music has infused a lot of film and TV shows recently, from the rich aural landscape of HBO’s “The Underground Railroad” to the unexpected banger that is the…
June 15, 2021
How a story originally reported for print was transformed for audio

How a story originally reported for print was transformed for audio

EDITOR’S NOTE: Read our conversation with Robyn Semien of This American Life and Ken Armstrong, formerly of The Marshall Project, on how those two organizations and ProPublica partnered to tell…
June 3, 2021
A radio producer and print reporters partner on a narrative for multiple platforms

A radio producer and print reporters partner on a narrative for multiple platforms

EDITOR’S NOTE: Read an annotation of the prologue and first act of This American Life’s “Anatomy of Doubt.”CAUTION: The stories linked to and discussed in this package describe details of…
June 2, 2021
How Memorial Day memories become today's stories

How Memorial Day memories become today’s stories

The Memorial Day weekend caught me by surprise. After 16 months of no travel, and a schedule dictated only by this weekly newsletter, I lost the daily rhythm of showing…
May 31, 2021
How lessons from past stories can inform future stories

How lessons from past stories can inform future stories

My morning NPR ritual recently brought back two major landmarks in my journalism career this past week. May 18 was both the 41st anniversary of the eruption of Mount St.…
May 26, 2021
Embedding with EMTs to write about the first line of COVID first responders

Embedding with EMTs to write about the first line of COVID first responders

Ava Kofman of ProPublica blended contextual and records reporting with intimate narrative interviews and observation
May 21, 2021
How narrative moments can elevate a non-narrative story

How narrative moments can elevate a non-narrative story

Two foundational definitions of news are proximity and immediacy. The closer and more urgent an event or issue, the more likely it is to grab a reader’s attention. That can…
May 11, 2021
From city hall scoops to breaking news to profiles to narratives

From city hall scoops to breaking news to profiles to narratives

Lizzie Johnson’s work covering the deadly wildfires that have scorched California in recent years has earned a place in these posts in the past. Most notable was an annotation of…
May 6, 2021
A narrative on the political divide reported from the inside-out

A narrative on the political divide reported from the inside-out

Jose A. Del Real of The Washington Post uses phone, email and texts to profile a family torn apart by conflicting beliefs in "facts"
April 20, 2021