“The wave of coronavirus cases that swept across the country late last year put even the most battle-hardened EMTs under unprecedented psychological strain.”
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Listen to the Sound of My Voice
How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.
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The Epic Hunt for One of the World’s Most Wanted Men
“He was one of Africa’s richest moguls and helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Then Félicien Kabuga vanished and stayed hidden for more than two decades—until recently, when the United Nations’ war crimes detectives picked up his trail and began to close in.”
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Lives, on the Line
Six lives changed forever, as COVID-19 swept across Minnesota.
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Spies, Lies, and Stonewalling: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook
“The company controls the communications and informational intake of more than two and a half billion people. It can feel impossible to comprehend its total influence—or to overstate its impact on journalism.” Jacob Silverman talks to over a dozen journalists in an attempt to understand what it’s like to cover Facebook.
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“What Do I Know To Be True?”: Emma Copley Eisenberg on Truth in Nonfiction, Writing Trauma, and The Dead Girl Newsroom
“We were interested in dead girls, but so interested in them that we were trying to do the opposite of what had been done before.”Â
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What Happened Onboard the ‘Nautilus’?
May Jeong searches for answers after the death of her friend, journalist Kim Wall.
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The Trump Whisperer: A Conversation with Washington Post Reporter David Fahrenthold
Fahrenthold on how he follows the money, “shows his work,” and solicits leads from Twitter in covering Donald Trump.
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Scarred by a Rubber Doll
“I’ll never go back to dating a real woman again — no matter what happens.”
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A Slice of Cake and a Tip Lead to a Portrait of Addiction in Ohio
New York Times reporter Jack Healy was sitting in a diner when he received a tip about a father who had lost two of his three adult children to opioid overdoses.