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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
Comedian Chris Gethard on the power of listening

Comedian Chris Gethard on the power of listening

Chris Gethard’s career may be the most zigzag-filled in comedy.He’s the author of several books, including “Lose Well,” on the importance of failure; an actor who’s appeared in high-profile TV…
February 11, 2022
Viewing the COVID divide through tensions in one rural community

Viewing the COVID divide through tensions in one rural community

It’s no surprise to Tim Sullivan that major news outlets like CNN or his employer, the Associated Press, are taking flak from conservatives for peddling “fake news.” But he was…
February 8, 2022
Sticking a story together — and nailing the structure

Sticking a story together — and nailing the structure

A top Danish journalist uses a one-word theme and color-coded Post-its to find the path through her stories
February 2, 2022
An obit gets honest and goes viral

An obit gets honest and goes viral

“A plus-sized Jewish redneck lady died in El Paso on Saturday.” That’s the first line of the unforgettable obit of Renay Mandel Corren, who died in December at age 84.…
January 25, 2022
An Atlantic writer turned a fatal blow into a sensitive study of boxing, guilt and grit

An Atlantic writer turned a fatal blow into a sensitive study of boxing, guilt and grit

Atlantic editor and writer Jacob Stern can sum up in a single word, as flickering as a blurred jab, what he knew about boxing: “Nothing.” But when Stern embarked on…
January 18, 2022
The making of Joan Didion: From fuzzy facts to peerless prose

The making of Joan Didion: From fuzzy facts to peerless prose

Joan Didion died on December 23, 2021, and by Christmas internet searches were returning page after page of obituaries that described her as a “peerless prose stylist.” She has long…
January 14, 2022
The bold Joan Didion story you probably never read

The bold Joan Didion story you probably never read

A charter member of IRE carried lessons from Didion's probe of the 1989 Central Park jogger case throughout his career
January 13, 2022
Reconstructing 72 hours of life and death under the "heat dome"

Reconstructing 72 hours of life and death under the “heat dome”

EDITOR’S NOTE: Temperatures in the Pacific Northwest were sitting in the single digits, with rare snow in the cities along the I-5 corridor, as this piece came in for editing.…
January 11, 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