Story Lab Archive: Journalism
Did Stewart and Colbert measure up to Glenn Beck?
Monday UPDATE: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert grossly underestimated the likely attendance at their rally on Saturday. Although the permit for the rally anticipated a crowd of 60,000, the best estimates put actual attendance in the neighborhood of 200,000, compared...
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Annys Shin
| November 1, 2010; 2:24 PM ET |
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Stewart-Colbert rally: Entertainment or pure politics?
UPDATE: We’ve just launched our Intersect coverage of the Stewart-Colbert rally. Find the latest from Intersect users and Washington Post staff here. And if you’re new to Intersect, you may find this tip sheet on how to publish stories useful....
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Marc Fisher
| October 27, 2010; 7:03 AM ET |
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Assignment Editor, Journalism
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A tribute to a fallen street character--but was he really dead?
My colleague Steve Hendrix's story today about the popular burrito street vendor Carlos Guardado is a sweet and sad tale, but when I read it, I shuddered with frightening flashbacks to a similar piece I wrote in 2004. In Hendrix's...
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Ian Shapira
| October 7, 2010; 10:00 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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How I got that story, Journalism , More on the story, The inside story
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Going without the web, Story Lab-style
In the continuing backlash against social media and the tyranny of being connected 24/7, The Post's Jenna Johnson reports that an entire university is blocking access to social media as an experiment very similar to the one we did...
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Marc Fisher
| September 9, 2010; 3:41 PM ET |
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An Alaska souvenir: Bruises
It was after midnight when fisherman John Renner, shown in the distance, dropped us off on the boat of John Platt, shown in the foreground. Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post I was in the next room but I...
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Theresa Vargas
| September 8, 2010; 11:03 AM ET |
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How I got that story, Journalism
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Alaska oil spill, BP and Alaska, BP and Exxon, BP and Exxon Valdez, BP oil spill, Exxon Valdez, Gulf oil spill, Louisiana and Alaska, Nikki Khan, Theresa Vargas
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