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Rehab III: The Profile

Rehab III: The Profile...

November 17, 2002

In which our hero walks the tightrope between guiding the reader and getting the hell ...

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Rehab II: Get me re-write!!!

Rehab II: Get me re-write!!!...

November 2, 2002

Law, technology, sex and religion throw a groovy little party, and Bob gets overwhelmed One of ...

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Rehab I: Bob returns to reporting

Rehab I: Bob returns to report...

October 26, 2002

Lessons learned--and re-learned--after a 9-year layoff I figured that when I returned to reporting after a ...

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‘How I wrote the story’: Navigating the ‘anniversary’ assignment

‘How I wrote the story&#...

May 27, 2002

Steve Springer probes the legacy of a few ill-chosen words about race that stunned the ...

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‘How I wrote the story’: Coming of age in the riots

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May 6, 2002

Ten years later, Daren Briscoe finds big truths in small tales Sometimes the best stories are ...

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‘How I wrote the story’: Bringing a subculture into focus

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April 8, 2002

Explaining a poignant social problem near the Mexican border, Sebastian Rotella became the real Boss Here's ...

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‘How I wrote the story’: Wrestling with obscurity

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April 1, 2002

Mike Boehm makes you want to know more about somebody you never heard of Mike Boehm, ...

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‘How I wrote the story’: You have five hours to make sense of 9,000 pages

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March 18, 2002

Matt Lait & friends find a needle in a haystack on deadline What happened in the ...

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‘How I wrote the story’: When is it a brief? When is it 1,200 words?

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March 4, 2002

A reporter finds deeper meaning in an everyday big-city crime It's Saturday morning. You're a general-assignment ...

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‘How I wrote the story’: Getting inside a character

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February 18, 2002

Josh Getlin's profile of a notorious lawyer shows you how to peel back the layers This ...

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