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Reporting

Crime

Tie a Tourniquet on Your Heart

Revisiting Edna Buchanan, America’s greatest police reporter.

Diana Moskovitz Popula Jun 2020 10min Permalink

Best Article Politics Media

The Fresno Bee and the War on Local News

The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.

Zach Baron GQ Dec 2018 25min Permalink

Crime Media

Three Years of Nights

Violence convulses the city of Chicago after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars.

Peter Nickeas Chicago Magazine Aug 2016 25min Permalink

Politics

A Week on the Trail With the “Disgusting Reporters” Covering Donald Trump

What it’s like to write about a candidate who hates you.

Seth Stevenson Slate Mar 2016 10min Permalink

Sports Media

My Life In The Locker Room: A Female Sportswriter Remembers The Dicks

“I was in the visiting clubhouse waiting to interview one of the Oakland A’s this year when one of the players called, ‘Here, pussy’—as though he were calling a cat. But of course, he hadn’t lost Fluffy; he’d found a woman in his locker room.”

Jennifer Briggs Dallas Observer Jun 1992 35min Permalink

Politics Media

The Obama Administration and the Press

The White House’s unprecedented crackdown on reporters.

Leonard Downie Jr., Sara Rafsky Committee to Protect Journalists Oct 2013 55min Permalink

Arts

How Do You Explain Gene Weingarten?

A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.

Tom Bartlett Washingtonian Dec 2011 20min Permalink

Media

What I Learned in Joplin

A reporter on his first time covering a disaster.

Brian Stelter The Deadline May 2011 10min Permalink