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WriteLane

Tampa Bay Times

179 episodes

2 weeks ago

Lane DeGregory, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, is a masterful storyteller. Each episode of WriteLane is a discussion of craft, using prime examples of narrative journalism. DeGregory joined the Times in 2000 after working for two papers in Virginia. She has won dozens of national awards, including twice winning Scripps Howard’s Ernie Pyle Award for human interest writing, eight National Headliner Awards and eight awards from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She teaches at the University of South Florida, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and journalism conferences across the world.

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Lane DeGregory, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, is a masterful storyteller. Each episode of WriteLane is a discussion of craft, using prime examples of narrative journalism. DeGregory joined the Times in 2000 after working for two papers in Virginia. She has won dozens of national awards, including twice winning Scripps Howard’s Ernie Pyle Award for human interest writing, eight National Headliner Awards and eight awards from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She teaches at the University of South Florida, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and journalism conferences across the world.

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Episodes (20/179)

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The New Yorker's Parker Yesko discusses a four-year effort to investigate why U.S. Marines weren't held accountable for war crimes in Iraq.

Listen to the award-winning podcast In the Dark at this link.

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2 weeks ago

28 minutes 53 seconds

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History Lessons

Dana Hedgpeth of The Washington Post talks about the privilege of telling the stories of our elders. To read Dana's award-winning project about sexual abuse in Native American boarding schools, click here.

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1 month ago

37 minutes 17 seconds

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Home-Field Advantage

L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez uses his voice to improve the community where he's lived for a quarter of a century.

Read one of Lopez's award-winning columns here.

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1 month ago

32 minutes 48 seconds

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A TikTok Investigation

Is this shopping mall really open and why can't you make a left turn in New Jersey? Those are some of the topics one reporter has tackled to engage audiences with humor and quick-hit videos.

Watch Sean Sullivan's award-winning TikTok here.

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1 month ago

28 minutes 50 seconds

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Life of the Mother

ProPublica's Kavitha Surana was pregnant and then a young mother as she pursued the story about women who'd died in the wake of restricted abortion access. Read Life of the Mother here.

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2 months ago

29 minutes 5 seconds

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A Conversation with Eli Saslow: What Makes a Feature Story?

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/

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1 year ago

42 minutes 34 seconds

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The Swan Project

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

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2 years ago

25 minutes 51 seconds

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A Message from Roger

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

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2 years ago

22 minutes 7 seconds

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The Truth is Flexible

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

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2 years ago

21 minutes 8 seconds

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Zeke the Labrador

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

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2 years ago

21 minutes 2 seconds

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Raising Writers

Lane and her mom discuss their writing lives and how they each were drawn to words.

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3 years ago

15 minutes 41 seconds

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Pulse Nightclub Shooting Tests Youth’s Courage

Find stakeholders, explore other perspectives, follow someone through a vigil.

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3 years ago

25 minutes 3 seconds

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A Brother’s Bond

Make a connection, build trust, have a conversation: Dogs, kids, cars.

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3 years ago

19 minutes 11 seconds

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Gone in a Flash

Hang out at bars, eavesdrop on conversations, bribe with beers, find: Character. Action. Setting. Theme.

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3 years ago

18 minutes 49 seconds

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Driving Headlong into Sunny Eden

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.

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3 years ago

19 minutes 4 seconds

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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.

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3 years ago

16 minutes 37 seconds

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12 Hours in a COVID ICU Unit

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.

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3 years ago

24 minutes 15 seconds

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Turning PR People into Storytellers

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.

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3 years ago

19 minutes 25 seconds

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Voices of the Pandemic: A Conversation with Eli Saslow

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.

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4 years ago

19 minutes 56 seconds

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Wants to be a cop?

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.

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4 years ago

22 minutes 12 seconds