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

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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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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March 24, 2022 19 mins
On this episode of WriteLane, we sit down with Ben Riggs, a senior communications specialist at Kettering Health. He asked us for tips on how to get his team to think and write like storytellers.

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Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow recounts the process of collecting and writing a series of first person narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic. These stories are published in his new book, Voices of the Pandemic.

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October 20, 2021 22 mins
After a reckoning over policing in America, 30 recruits enroll at the academy. We reflect on how our eight-part series, with an epilogue, came together.

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December 30, 2020 21 mins
After three years and 159 episodes, time for a break.

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December 23, 2020 29 mins
Take risks. Ignore naysayers. Trust your instincts. That advice and more.

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December 16, 2020 28 mins
The conversation continues with Kelly McBride, NPR’s public editor and chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the Poynter Institute.

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December 9, 2020 32 mins

Kelly McBride, NPR’s public editor and chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the Poynter Institute, discusses the ethical issues journalists face today.




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December 2, 2020 22 mins
Listen for a case study in how to pull together a story that’s changing as you report it.

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November 25, 2020 24 mins
How to reveal deeper truths about someone you’re writing about.

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