WriteLane

WriteLane

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

December 23, 2025 27 mins
Nonprofit newsroom finds a devastating story that was playing out publicly, day to day, but without important context. Explore more.

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Meet one of the co-founders of a nonprofit newsroom focused on reporting on Black communities. Check out Capital B.

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November 25, 2025 28 mins
Sarah Topol, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, talks about the long journey to tell the story of a Russian soldier. Read the award-winning story here.

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November 12, 2025 28 mins

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.

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October 28, 2025 37 mins
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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October 14, 2025 32 mins

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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September 30, 2025 28 mins

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. 


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September 16, 2025 29 mins
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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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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March 31, 2023 25 mins

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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March 31, 2023 22 mins

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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March 31, 2023 21 mins

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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March 31, 2023 21 mins

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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September 26, 2022 15 mins
Lane and her mom discuss their writing lives and how they each were drawn to words.

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

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July 29, 2022 19 mins
Make a connection, build trust, have a conversation: Dogs, kids, cars.

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July 29, 2022 18 mins
Hang out at bars, eavesdrop on conversations, bribe with beers, find: Character. Action. Setting. Theme.

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April 9, 2022 19 mins
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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April 9, 2022 16 mins
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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March 24, 2022 24 mins
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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