WriteLane

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WriteLane episodes

December 11, 2018 Old holiday, new ideas
This week, Christopher Spata joins the podcast.
Spata, a features writer for the Tampa Bay Times, is particularly adept at finding stories that others might never think about or overlook, and particularly at the holidays.
Read the stories mentioned in the podcast: How to rent a reindeer? Want to be Santa? The Santa census.
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24 min
December 04, 2018 Code Switch
Lane DeGregory was recently featured on NPR’s Code Switch discussing The House on the Corner, a story published in the Tampa Bay Times in December 2017. NPR graciously agreed to let us use it on WriteLane. “The House On The Corner” was originally broadcast on NPR’s Code Switch on Nov. 14, 2018. Please be advised that some of the language may be offensive.

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34 min
November 27, 2018 Sharpening the story
Hear pointers about editing your work - or someone else's.
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25 min
November 20, 2018 Taking notes
How do you take notes? There may be a better way. Listen up.
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23 min
November 13, 2018 Getting personal
The conversation is about writing first-person essays and interjecting yourself as a character in stories.
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23 min
November 06, 2018 Storm stories
Tampa Bay Times reporter Zack Sampson joins the podcast to talk about covering hurricanes. Sampson went to report from Florida’s Panhandle as Hurricane Michael closed in. To read some of his stories, go to: "We're broken here," Banding together and "We're just waiting."
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32 min
October 30, 2018 A ghost story
In honor of Halloween, revisit the story of Ma Barker’s house. And read the story referenced in the podcast: https://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/ghostly-warning-dead-gangster-ma-barker-doesnt-want-her-house-moved/2300286
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23 min
October 23, 2018 Changing the narrative
Check out recent projects from the nola.com newsroom:
https://projects.nola.com/the-children-of-central-city/ https://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/page/a_fragile_state.html.
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39 min
October 16, 2018 War Stories
Check out the video for one of the projects that Vicki Cronis-Nohe and Denise Watson worked on together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkdVMNMw0NA&feature=youtu.be
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32 min
October 09, 2018 Follow your bliss
To see the series referenced in the podcast, go to: http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/writelane/2018/10/10/episode-43-follow-your-bliss/
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28 min

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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…