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May 5, 2025
What Would Joan Didion Do?
Grace Byron
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April 20, 2025
What Was Twitter? The Drift Asks The Question of The Hour
Leah Abrams
March 3, 2025
Amidst a Crumbling Media Industry, the Journalist-In-Your-Inbox Model Shows Promise
Steven Melendez
May 5, 2025
AM Gardinier Halstead Wrote A Response to Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Superbowl Performance
Daniel Spielberger
May 5, 2025
Abigail Reported On The Vermilion Vanguard
Daniel Spielberger
April 30, 2025
Harris Wheless Reviewed Brendan Greaves’ New Biography of Terry Allen
Daniel Spielberger
April 30, 2025
Andrea Javor Wrote About Staying Focused At Work While Processing A Divorce
Daniel Spielberger
Features
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June 19, 2023
The Media Needs To Reckon With Objectivity
It's time we reconsider conflicts of interest.
Syris Valentine
June 5, 2023
This Nonprofit Is Silencing Palestinian Journalists
HonestReporting, which has several core team members with direct relationships to the Israeli state, keeps a tally every time they get a news outlet to correct a story with alleged anti-Israel bias.
Luke Ottenhof
April 14, 2023
How to Take Vacations as a Freelancer
Luke Ottenhof contemplates whether freelancers can ever fully unplug.
Luke Ottenhof
March 17, 2023
How Freelance Journalists Worked Together To Recover From The 2020 Protests
Despite the impact protest reporting has had on them, these journalists stand by their decision to continuously report from the frontlines.
James Stout
Guides
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June 11, 2024
How To Pitch A Feature
Daniel Spielberger
June 11, 2024
How To Pitch An Essay
Daniel Spielberger
June 10, 2024
How To Pitch A Profile
Daniel Spielberger
March 25, 2024
Study Hall AMA: Copyright lawyer Alex Feerst
Daniel Spielberger
Knowledge
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March 23, 2023
How To Land a Narrative Feature
Ian Frisch writes about his process developing, reporting, and landing a narrative feature story.
Ian Frisch
February 7, 2023
A Newbie’s Guide To Navigating Upwork
Brandon Summers-Miller reports on how copywriters who have joined the self-proclaimed “largest network of independent professionals” try to get better rates and gigs.
Brandon Summers-Miller
November 11, 2022
Study Hall Guide to Reporting on Abortion
Anna Furman on covering abortion rights with precision, accuracy, and humanity.
Anna Furman
September 6, 2022
The Big Idea with Vaughn Stafford Gray
Writer Vaughn Stafford Gray talks getting organized and asking for higher pay.
Sara Clemence
Digests
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September 24, 2023
How I Found Value in a Journalism Class
Nicholas Greyson Ward
September 11, 2023
The Future of NYC Local Media
Willy Blackmore
August 28, 2023
Postmedia Is Wrecking Canadian Journalism
Luke Ottenhof
August 21, 2023
Who Wants Link Juice?
Steven Melendez