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Lane DeGregory: Intimate access to a Florida COVID-19 ward, with conditions

Lane DeGregory: Intimate access to a Florida COVID-19 ward, with conditions

As a writer who routinely embeds in her subjects’ lives, the COVID pandemic was a blow to Lane DeGregory’s reporting. She was barred from sit-down interviews, where she would normally…
September 30, 2021
Jim Sheeler turned the simple obituary into a high and reverent art

Jim Sheeler turned the simple obituary into a high and reverent art

A brief anecdote in a Denver Post story about Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Sheeler describes how a new reporter was seated next to him in the newsroom of the Rocky…
September 23, 2021
The New Yorker explores a dilemma in Ultra-Orthodox divorce: What about the children?

The New Yorker explores a dilemma in Ultra-Orthodox divorce: What about the children?

Writer Larissa MacFarquhar is drawn to stories that help her sort out issues that have no clear solutions
September 21, 2021
Reporting through privacy and pain to expose the scandal of Black amputations

Reporting through privacy and pain to expose the scandal of Black amputations

National Magazine Award winner Lizzie Presser documents the discrimination that leaves Black diabetes patients without easy and affordable care
September 15, 2021
Tracking shards of grief for 20 years, and daring to love your story subjects

Tracking shards of grief for 20 years, and daring to love your story subjects

Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic goes on a quest to find what a friend lost to 9/11 left behind, and delivers a meditation on love and grief
September 10, 2021
A 9/11 survival story: Honoring accuracy and voice in eyewitness accounts

A 9/11 survival story: Honoring accuracy and voice in eyewitness accounts

Writing scholar Roy Peter Clark reprises a cousin's escape story, and finds lessons for writers who help people recount personal stories
September 9, 2021
From Sept. 11 to COVID: Using the personal to write the global

From Sept. 11 to COVID: Using the personal to write the global

How do you write about a shared event that changes the world, but that we each experience personally? And how do you then share that personal experience back to the…
September 8, 2021
"The Simulation of Jessica:" Chapter 2 unfurls an intimate chatbot conversation

“The Simulation of Jessica:” Chapter 2 unfurls an intimate chatbot conversation

The Jessica Simulation:Love and loss in the age of A.I.The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with…
September 1, 2021
"The Simulation of Jessica:" Jason Fagone follows the creation, life and death of a chatbot romance

“The Simulation of Jessica:” Jason Fagone follows the creation, life and death of a chatbot romance

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of three annotated chapters that follow a grieving man’s journey into artificial intelligence to reconnect with his dead lover, and find some peace. You…
August 31, 2021
How the loss of one Olympic story led to gold on another

How the loss of one Olympic story led to gold on another

Wall Street Journal sports reporter Ben Cohen found a surprising profile of an unlikely Olympian in previous notes, then used Zoom to bring it to life
August 27, 2021