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Economic Hardship Reporting Project seeks story pitches that personalize poverty

Economic Hardship Reporting Project seeks story pitches that personalize poverty

"Mine your life," says managing director David Wallis; think about what you’re an expert in and share that story
September 2, 2020
How reporting through time and place reveals character

How reporting through time and place reveals character

With transportation stymied by a pandemic, Wright Thompson couldn’t exactly hop on a plane to research a story on Michael Jordan. Instead, the ESPN senior reporter built a time machine,…
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
How a high school journalist geared up to cover protests in Portland, Oregon

How a high school journalist geared up to cover protests in Portland, Oregon

As federal law enforcement officers descended on Portland, Oregon, last month and clashed with protesters demanding an end to police brutality, Eddy Binford-Ross — who lives in Salem, about 45…
August 20, 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
Bearing witness inside a funeral home at the pitch of the COVID pandemic

Bearing witness inside a funeral home at the pitch of the COVID pandemic

Josh Sanburn went deep into a place of death — and found a story that teems with life.In “The Last of the First Responders,” published in June in Vanity Fair, …
August 14, 2020
Extraordinary access: A reporter follows a police officer on a mental health call

Extraordinary access: A reporter follows a police officer on a mental health call

Hannah Dreier of the Washington Post reveals the complexity of policing in her narrative of an officer, a troubled woman, a gun, and cell phone cameras
August 11, 2020
The enduring power of John Hersey's "Hiroshima": the first "nonfiction novel"

The enduring power of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”: the first “nonfiction novel”

Seventy-five years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, a plane called the Enola Gay, manned by a crew from the U.S. Army Air Force, flew over the Japanese city of Hiroshima…
August 6, 2020
How the "Beyonce of earthquakes" uses storytelling to explain science

How the “Beyonce of earthquakes” uses storytelling to explain science

Call her the “Beyonce of earthquakes” or simply “the Earthquake Lady.” But when the foundations get shaky — whether it’s during a temblor or, now, a pandemic — Lucy Jones…
August 4, 2020
When the bounds of conventional journalism are too tight

When the bounds of conventional journalism are too tight

I’ll go great lengths not to affect a story during the reporting process. Journalists are supposed to be the observer, not the actor, right? Our job is to witness and…
July 31, 2020