Story Lab Archive: How I got that story
Inside the story of 'Music Where We Live'
As the deputy editor on the Post Magazine, I like stories where there’s a kind of built-in tension right from the start; where someone wants something that goes against obvious logic. And that’s exactly what we have in “Music...
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David Rowell
| January 11, 2011; 10:24 PM ET |
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Telling a mother's story through her Facebook status updates
Several weeks ago, my wife Caroline and I were stuck inside Chicago’s O’Hare airport, waiting for a flight home, and, to burn some time, she logged onto Facebook. She tapped my arm and pointed at her screen. There on the...
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Ian Shapira
| December 9, 2010; 10:22 PM ET |
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Inside the priests story: Searching for the abusers
The story started the way some of the best ones do, with a basic sort of question, the kind of question someone tosses out casually at the dinner table: What ever happened to the Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse...
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Michelle Boorstein
| December 6, 2010; 10:42 AM ET |
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Pot in D.C.: A reporter makes stuff up
This weekend marked a milestone in my career -- my first published work of fiction. The most amazing part: It was published in a newspaper, as news. To write about California’s vote tomorrow to legalize marijuana, my editors and I...
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Michael S. Rosenwald
| November 1, 2010; 9:26 AM ET |
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How brain injury and war became a story
The question last year, from a long-time source, was seemed simple enough: Did I want to meet some patients from Bethesda with TBI? Unlike so many military acronyms beyond my ken, I knew what TBI stood for: Traumatic Brain Injury. But until that night, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, where I met several wounded warriors who were the guest of the governor of Maryland, I realized I didn't really know what TBI was.
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Christian Davenport
| October 4, 2010; 9:39 AM ET |
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Inside the death chamber: A reporter's view
Veteran Washington Post crime and justice reporter Maria Glod was a media witness to the execution of Teresa Lewis on Thursday night. Lewis was the first woman executed by Virginia in nearly 100 years. Here is Glod's account of the...
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Maria Glod
| September 24, 2010; 12:37 PM ET |
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