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...
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Show overview
WriteLane has been publishing since 2017, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 182 episodes. That works out to roughly 80 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 23 min and 27 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.
There hasn’t been a new episode in the last ninety days; the most recent episode landed 6 months ago. The busiest year was 2019, with 53 episodes published.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 182 episodesEp 182A Crisis in Baltimore
Nonprofit newsroom finds a devastating story that was playing out publicly, day to day, but without important context. Explore more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 181Capital B
Meet one of the co-founders of a nonprofit newsroom focused on reporting on Black communities. Check out Capital B. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 180The Deserter
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 179In the Dark
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.Listen to the award-winning podcast In the Dark at this link. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 178History Lessons
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 177Home-Field Advantage
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 176A TikTok Investigation
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. Watch Sean Sullivan's award-winning TikTok here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 175Life of the Mother
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A Conversation with Eli Saslow: What Makes a Feature Story?
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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Swan Project
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A Message from Roger
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Truth is Flexible
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Zeke the Labrador
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Raising Writers
Lane and her mom discuss their writing lives and how they each were drawn to words. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pulse Nightclub Shooting Tests Youth’s Courage
Find stakeholders, explore other perspectives, follow someone through a vigil. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A Brother’s Bond
Make a connection, build trust, have a conversation: Dogs, kids, cars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gone in a Flash
Hang out at bars, eavesdrop on conversations, bribe with beers, find: Character. Action. Setting. Theme. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Driving Headlong into Sunny Eden
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The "THE" Guy
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12 Hours in a COVID ICU Unit
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.