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The Lead Special Episode: What the Hackathon, Featuring Adam Levin

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UGA’s Moni Basu On the Power of Storytelling

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NPR’s Joe Shapiro on Covering Disability Rights, Finding Voices for Radio

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NPR’s Elissa Nadworny on Reporting Internationally

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B. “Toastie” Oaster on Telling Native Stories

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The Houston Chronicle’s Brady Stone on Reaching Readers

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Ryan Prior on Uncovering Stories About Health and Disability

Ryan Prior has been interested in telling stories about health, science and disability since ...

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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 ...

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Atlanta Magazine’s Kamille Whittaker on Recording Black History

Kamille Whittaker’s career is intimately intertwined with the Black Press, starting with her time ...

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Grist’s Lylla Younes on Environmental Storytelling

Lylla Younes’ work has had an impact. Her work mapping cancer-causing industrial pollution in ...

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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 ...

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Paul Glader on Getting Out of the Office

Paul Glader’s reporting has taken him all over, from California to Sweden and Germany. ...

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UGA’s Vicki Michaelis on Sports Journalism’s Expansive Impact

Vicki Michaelis is one of few people who have witnessed Michael Phelps win every ...

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Melissa Lyttle on Believing in Your Work

Melissa Lyttle is an award-winning photojournalist who spent 15 years working at newspapers in ...

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ProPublica’s Rui Kaneya on Supporting Local Investigative News

Rui Kaneya, a senior editor at ProPublica, joins The Lead to talk about why ...

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Alyssa Pointer on People-Focused Photojournalism

Longform documentary storytelling is Alyssa Pointer’s specialty. She’s an independent photojournalist who wants her ...

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NPR’s Pallavi Gogoi on Making Business Stories That Matter to People

Pallavi Gogoi has worked in financial journalism for most of her long and impressive ...

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GPB’s Stephen Fowler on political reporting and the power of radio

What does it take to cover politics in a state as crucial and rapidly ...

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