Tie a Tourniquet on Your Heart
Revisiting Edna Buchanan, America’s greatest police reporter.
Revisiting Edna Buchanan, America’s greatest police reporter.
Diana Moskovitz Popula Jun 2020 10min Permalink
The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.
Zach Baron GQ Dec 2018 25min Permalink
Violence convulses the city of Chicago after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars.
Peter Nickeas Chicago Magazine Aug 2016 25min Permalink
What it’s like to write about a candidate who hates you.
Seth Stevenson Slate Mar 2016 10min Permalink
“I was in the visiting clubhouse waiting to interview one of the Oakland A’s this year when one of the players called, ‘Here, pussy’—as though he were calling a cat. But of course, he hadn’t lost Fluffy; he’d found a woman in his locker room.”
Jennifer Briggs Dallas Observer Jun 1992 35min Permalink
The White House’s unprecedented crackdown on reporters.
Leonard Downie Jr., Sara Rafsky Committee to Protect Journalists Oct 2013 55min Permalink
A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.
Tom Bartlett Washingtonian Dec 2011 20min Permalink
A reporter on his first time covering a disaster.
Brian Stelter The Deadline May 2011 10min Permalink