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Journalist and author Steve Gamel says writing is not easy, but he has some tips on how to help us to overcome our fears and improve our writing skills.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner Gene Weingarten reunites with one of his former reporters during last year's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference to give a master class in narrative storytelling. You'll learn about how you tell stories about the people in your everyday life, how you bring scenes alive and why you always stay curious about the world around you.

The recently retired executive editor of the Washington Post discusses the dramatic pursuit of truth in journalism during a time when journalists are under attack. Baron talks about his passion for storytelling, highilights about his career at The Miami Herald and The Post and what's next

During the Vietnam War, 2,197 helicopter pilots and 2,717 crew members were killed. Black Cat 2-1 is the story of Bob Ford, the pilot, discusses how he wrote this compelling story about his many missions and the valiant men he served with who risked their lives for the troops on the ground. Ford flew on more than 1,000 missions when he and his men dared to protect and rescue.

Listen to Buzzfeed Investigative reporter Albert Samaha talks about how he is focused on reframing the way to tell the story of social justice in America. At the same time, he offers pro tips on how he revealed the unsafe conditions of essential workers around the country during the coronavirus pandemic. Samaha is author of Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City, which was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award.

During this high-energy conversation, Dallas-based reporter for The Marshall Project, Cary Aspinwall is a passionate investigative reporter who admittedly spends most of her life chasing down documents and information for her stories. Listen to this Pulitzer finalist talk about Oklahoma's flawed execution process and how to questioning authority is just second nature for her. he won the Gerald Loeb Award for reporting on a Texas company's history of deadly natural gas explosions