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The Lead: The Current’s Margaret Coker on reviving an investigative news desert
Margaret Coker has covered stories from 32 countries on four continents, working for The ...
The Lead Special Episode: What the Hackathon, Featuring Adam Levin
Misinformation. Deepfakes. Scams. None of these are going away, and we need tools to ...
The Lead: UGA’s Moni Basu On the Power of Storytelling
In her 40 years as a reporter, Moni Basu has learned how to tell ...
The Lead: NPR’s Joe Shapiro on Covering Disability Rights, Finding Voices for Radio
In his more than 20 years at NPR, Joe Shapiro has written stories on ...
The Lead: NPR’s Elissa Nadworny on Reporting Internationally
Elissa Nadworny likes to cover higher education because she sees it as a gateway ...
The Lead: B. “Toastie” Oaster on Telling Native Stories
Toastie Oaster’s first-ever feature made them a finalist in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. ...
The Lead: The Houston Chronicle’s Brady Stone on Reaching Readers
Stories don’t always make their way from reporters to readers on their own. Sometimes ...
The Lead: Ryan Prior on Uncovering Stories About Health and Disability
Ryan Prior has been interested in telling stories about health, science and disability since ...
The Lead: UGA’s Denetra Walker on Creating Change Through Social Justice Journalism
It’s Denetra Walker’s second semester teaching at the University of Georgia, and she’s just ...
The Lead: Atlanta Magazine’s Kamille Whittaker on Recording Black History
Kamille Whittaker’s career is intimately intertwined with the Black Press, starting with her time ...
The Lead: Grist’s Lylla Younes on Environmental Storytelling
Lylla Younes’ work has had an impact. Her work mapping cancer-causing industrial pollution in ...
The Lead: The Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Erin Schilling on the Joy of Editing
It’s only been a couple of years since Erin Schilling graduated from the University ...
