Invisible Kid

“Sentenced to life in prison at 16, Adolfo Davis hoped a Supreme Court ruling would give him a chance at a new beginning. But nothing about freedom turned out as he expected.”

Source: The Atavist
Published: Apr 30, 2021
Length: 44 minutes (11,000 words)

Mr. Bailey’s Class

“Before he was Philip Roth’s biographer, Blake Bailey taught the eighth grade. His students say he made them feel special. They worshipped him. They trusted him. He used it all against them.”

Source: Slate
Published: Apr 29, 2021
Length: 27 minutes (6,763 words)

Herman and the Serpent

“How a retired diplomat in Wellington brought a notorious murderer to justice.”

Source: North & South
Published: Apr 13, 2021
Length: 16 minutes (4,100 words)

Black on the Prairies

A multimedia, interactive exploration of Black life in on the prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

Source: CBC News
Published: Apr 25, 2021

‘Floyd was my man. But George Floyd is a movement.’

“The private grief of Courteney Ross, George Floyd’s girlfriend.”

Published: Apr 28, 2021
Length: 18 minutes (4,600 words)

The Failures Before the Fires

42 fires and 61 deaths, in a city that knew about fire safety issues and didn’t fix them.

Source: Chicago Tribune
Published: Apr 23, 2021
Length: 20 minutes (5,000 words)

Thriving Together: Salmon, Berries, and People

“Western science is a curious little sister on this coast, mapping ideas and observations in spaces where Indigenous science has been foundational to kinship-building and ecological balance for millennia.”

Source: Hakai Magazine
Published: Apr 27, 2021
Length: 8 minutes (2,000 words)

How We Survived Covid-19 in Prison

“At the start of the pandemic, we asked four incarcerated people to chronicle daily life with the coronavirus.” Bruce Bryant, Jennifer Graves, James Ellis, and Christopher Walker “reveal what they witnessed and how they coped with the chaos, fear, isolation and deaths.”

Published: Apr 22, 2021
Length: 14 minutes (3,610 words)

Lost on Sullivan’s Island

“Vail’s three-and-a-half day adventure brings into focus how we coexist. How we coexist with wealth. How we coexist with nature. And how we coexist with each other.”

Published: Apr 28, 2021
Length: 22 minutes (5,648 words)

Next Stop, K-Pop: A Dizzying Tour of Seoul’s Pop Music Scene

“The problem, I realized, is that they were my trips, with Sonya accompanying me—involuntarily. I wanted this trip to be different. I wanted it to be her trip.”

Source: AFAR
Published: Apr 22, 2021
Length: 14 minutes (3,531 words)