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The Society for Features Journalism hosted a conversation between Lane DeGregory and New York Times writer Eli Saslow to discuss what makes a feature story. Read the article about it here: https://featuresjournalism.org/tag/pulitzer/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Students at the PACE center for girls come from difficult backgrounds. Some have been homeless, in jail, or are teen moms. Lane DeGregory followed them for months, trying to see whether learning to be “ladies” would change their lives.You can read the story here: THE SWAN PROJECT Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A reader called the newspaper: He’d found a note in an ancient Pepsi bottle behind his house. Lane DeGregory set out to find whoever wrote it. And helped make a heart-breaking connection.You can read the story here: A MESSAGE FROM ROGER | Poynter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While city leaders around Tampa Bay were debating whether to outlaw panhandling, Lane DeGregory spent two days on the streets, learning how to convince drivers to give you money.You can read the story here: THE TRUTH IS FLEXIBLE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lane DeGregory of the Tampa Bay Times talks about taking a walk with an ailing, elderly man, his amazing pet, and the good dogs can do.You can read the story here: Time is short, but Zeke the Labrador lives to keep his owner alive Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lane and her mom discuss their writing lives and how they each were drawn to words. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Find stakeholders, explore other perspectives, follow someone through a vigil. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Make a connection, build trust, have a conversation: Dogs, kids, cars. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hang out at bars, eavesdrop on conversations, bribe with beers, find: Character. Action. Setting. Theme. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of WriteLane: follow your instincts and it might lead to the beach. Lane shares how keeping your "story radar" on, and being willing to follow it, can lead to touching stories in unexpected places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of WriteLane, Lane uncovers a simple lie that changes the course of her entire story. How a seemingly boring travel story turned into her first ever second-person narrative.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of WriteLane, we take you into the heart of a Covid ICU unit. Lane shares the challenges of reporting from a hospital in a pandemic and how she had to adapt her own reporting process to get the story. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of WriteLane, we sit down with Ben Riggs, a senior communications specialist at Kettering Health. He asked us for tips on how to get his team to think and write like storytellers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow recounts the process of collecting and writing a series of first person narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic. These stories are published in his new book, Voices of the Pandemic.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After a reckoning over policing in America, 30 recruits enroll at the academy. We reflect on how our eight-part series, with an epilogue, came together.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After three years and 159 episodes, time for a break.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Take risks. Ignore naysayers. Trust your instincts. That advice and more.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The conversation continues with Kelly McBride, NPR’s public editor and chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the Poynter Institute.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kelly McBride, NPR’s public editor and chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the Poynter Institute, discusses the ethical issues journalists face today.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen for a case study in how to pull together a story that’s changing as you report it.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.