WriteLane

By Tampa Bay TimesNews Education Arts

WriteLane episodes

March 31, 2023 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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23 min
March 31, 2023 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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22 min
March 31, 2023 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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22 min
September 26, 2022 Raising Writers
Lane and her mom discuss their writing lives and how they each were drawn to words.
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16 min
July 29, 2022 Pulse Nightclub Shooting Tests Youth’s Courage
Find stakeholders, explore other perspectives, follow someone through a vigil.
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26 min
July 29, 2022 A Brother’s Bond
Make a connection, build trust, have a conversation: Dogs, kids, cars.
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20 min
July 29, 2022 Gone in a Flash
Hang out at bars, eavesdrop on conversations, bribe with beers, find: Character. Action. Setting. Theme.
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19 min
April 10, 2022 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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20 min
April 10, 2022 The "THE" Guy
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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17 min
March 24, 2022 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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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…