Last spring, when so many of us were frightened and nervous at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the world of journalism and the world as a who...

I've done 83 episodes of the Telling the Story podcast and, in the process, interviewed nearly as many talented storytellers and journalists. Episode ...

On his first day covering Twin Cities protests after the death of George Floyd, photographer Ed Ou briefly became the news. Ou says he was set up with...

Quick confession: I honestly don't remember when I first heard about Lynsey Weatherspoon. It might have been last spring, when one of her photos of th...

After conducting this interview - and then listening back to it - I felt fired up to go out and tell a story. I wanted to pick up my camera, put on an...

There’s a line I sometimes recite when I feel I’ve reached a professional roadblock. It’s a punchline from an eighth-season episode of Seinfeld, where...

The "origin story" is a superhero movie staple: how one everyday individual discovered extraordinary powers and realized her or his destiny of defendi...

The first time I met Neima Abdulahi, it was her first week at our station, WXIA-TV in Atlanta, and I was asked if she could shadow me for a day. But I...

I think many of us are reckoning with our roles as journalists - and questioning some of the supposed set-in-stone practices of the profession. We're ...

For five months, the Telling the Story podcast has been delayed by current events - both external in the world (COVID-19) and internal in my life (the...