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The reporter who stopped chasing scoops
Six months of slow reporting, and what it did to her sourcing.
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The Archive
Independent writing on media, craft, and the cost of attention.
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Building a desk of five
Hiring, paying and keeping writers when there is no institution behind you.
On refusing the interview
When a subject declines, the story usually gets better. Three cases.
The photographer who quit stock
Commissioning real photography on a newsletter budget.
Questions I stopped asking
Ten years of interview openers, ranked by how little they produced.
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A designer inside a newsroom
What changes when the person setting the type sits in edit meetings.
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The fixer's ledger
What reporting abroad actually costs, itemised across four assignments.
Two editors, one masthead
How a co-editorship splits final say without splitting the publication.
The archive keeper
Someone has to decide what stays online. She has done it for a decade.
Recording everything
A decade of taped interviews, and what the archive is good for.
Print, one issue a year
The economics of an annual, from a founder who has printed four.
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The correction that doubled our conversions
Publishing a mistake in full, and what happened to the paid tier that week.
Reporting in a second language
Nuance, idiom, and the risk of quoting someone accurately but wrongly.
A week of no interviews
What happens to a publication built on conversation when nobody replies.
Editing a friend
The conflict every small publication has and nobody writes a policy for.
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Twenty years, four publications
A career told through the mastheads he left and why.
Off the record, on the page
Three rules for background quotes that survived legal review.
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