WriteLane
Arts & Culture Podcasts
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.
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Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
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.
Twitter:
@lane_write
Language:
English
Email:
podcasts@tampabay.com
Episodes
A Conversation with Eli Saslow: What Makes a Feature Story?
1/22/2024
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/
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Duration:00:42:34
The Swan Project
3/31/2023
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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Duration:00:25:51
A Message from Roger
3/31/2023
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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Duration:00:22:07
The Truth is Flexible
3/31/2023
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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Duration:00:21:08
Zeke the Labrador
3/31/2023
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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Duration:00:21:02
Raising Writers
9/26/2022
Lane and her mom discuss their writing lives and how they each were drawn to words.
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Duration:00:15:40
Pulse Nightclub Shooting Tests Youth’s Courage
7/29/2022
Find stakeholders, explore other perspectives, follow someone through a vigil.
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Duration:00:28:13
A Brother’s Bond
7/29/2022
Make a connection, build trust, have a conversation: Dogs, kids, cars.
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Duration:00:19:11
Gone in a Flash
7/29/2022
Hang out at bars, eavesdrop on conversations, bribe with beers, find: Character. Action. Setting. Theme.
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Duration:00:18:48
Driving Headlong into Sunny Eden
4/10/2022
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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Duration:00:20:21
The "THE" Guy
4/10/2022
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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Duration:00:16:37
12 Hours in a COVID ICU Unit
3/24/2022
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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Duration:00:25:59
Turning PR People into Storytellers
3/24/2022
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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Duration:00:20:34
Voices of the Pandemic: A Conversation with Eli Saslow
11/19/2021
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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Duration:00:19:55
Wants to be a cop?
10/20/2021
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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Duration:00:22:12
Looking back
12/30/2020
After three years and 159 episodes, time for a break.
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Duration:00:23:17
Finding new story forms
12/23/2020
Take risks. Ignore naysayers. Trust your instincts. That advice and more.
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Duration:00:30:45
Examining ethics, part two
12/16/2020
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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Duration:00:29:41
Examining ethics
12/9/2020
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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Duration:00:33:49
How to heal?
12/2/2020
Listen for a case study in how to pull together a story that’s changing as you report it.
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Duration:00:24:34