WriteLane

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WriteLane episodes

April 30, 2019 Writing spaces
Writing spaces
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20 min
April 23, 2019 Five more reasons
Recently on the podcast, we tackled a question from a college journalism student who asked for five reasons to go into our profession. After that podcast, friends and colleagues provided their own reasons.
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25 min
April 16, 2019 Insane or evil?
On this week’s episode, we discuss coverage of the murder trial of John Jonchuck, the man who dropped his 5-year-old daughter, Phoebe, off a bridge one January night in 2015. Tampa Bay Times reporters Josh Solomon and Zachary Sampson, who covered the incident and have been in court for weeks, discuss the process and the challenges. Amy Hollyfield, the Times’ senior deputy editor for news, has been editing the daily coverage, and she hosts this week’s episode.
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26 min
April 09, 2019 Five reasons to go into journalism
A college student asked recently whether journalism was still worth it as a career. The student wanted reasons to go into the business, so here they are.
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25 min
April 02, 2019 Diamonds and handcuffs
Here’s a conversation about a recent week, where one story was inspired by a holiday and another by serendipity.
Click here to read the stories: Jewelers in love and A father’s footsteps.
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23 min
March 26, 2019 Don't be afraid
This podcast features a recent conversation with Janet Keeler’s journalism students at the University of South Florida. The focus is on a story reported at the state fair. Read it here: Couple falls for the biggest game at the fair.
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30 min
March 19, 2019 Coaching writers
Dick Weiss, a former editor and writing coach at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, joins the podcast to talk about working with reporters and how to get the best out of that relationship.
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26 min
March 12, 2019 Change through stories
Dick Weiss, a former editor and writing coach at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, joins the podcast to talk about a nonprofit called Forward Through Ferguson and his role as a “story catalyst.”
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28 min
March 06, 2019 Heartbroken
Kathleen McGrory, deputy investigations editor at the Tampa Bay Times, joins the podcast to talk about the reporting that she and Neil Bedi undertook last year. They brought to light problems at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg.
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29 min
February 26, 2019 Blood and Truth
On this episode, we discuss the reporting behind Blood and Truth, Leonora LaPeter Anton’s six-part serial narrative and nine-part podcast. Find the series at tampabay.com/bloodandtruth.
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25 min

About WriteLane

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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…