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Jason Motlagh, a journalist and filmmaker, is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the founder of Blackbeard Films. He won the Polk's Sydney Schanberg Prize for “This Will End in Blood an...

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Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He began the project, which was eventually p...

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Meribah Knight is a reporter with Nashville Public Radio. She won the Polk Award for Podcasting for “The Kids of Rutherford County,” produced with ProPublica and Serial, which revealed a sho...

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Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. He won the Polk Award for Local Reporting for "Ghost Tags," his series on the black market for temporary license plates. > “You ca...

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Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers won this year's George Polk Award for Television Reporting for “Inside Wagner,” their Vice News investigation of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and ...

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Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality,...

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Zach Harris is a journalist whose latest article for Rolling Stone is "Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling." > “I'm not like a staff writer who has … status and acces...

http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-574-zach-harris

Rozina Ali is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Her latest article is “Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Ver...

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Derek Thompson is a staff writer for The Atlantic and host of the podcast Plain English. > “I am an inveterate dilettante. I lose interest in subjects all > the time. Because ...

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Tessa Hulls is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and The Capitol Hill Times. Her new book, a graphic memoir, is Feeding Ghosts . > “This projec...

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Sloane Crosley is the author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and several other books. Her new memoir is Grief Is for People . > “You take a little sliver of yourself and you offer�...

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Lauren Markham is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and VQR. Her new book ...

http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-569-lauren-markham

Zoë Schiffer is the managing editor for Platformer. Her new book is Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter . > “Being the person where it's a fireable offense to leak to...

http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-568-zoe-schiffer

Patricia Evangelista is a trauma journalist whose coverage of the drug war in the Philippines has appeared in Rappler, Esquire, and elsewhere. Her recent book is Some People Need Killing: A Memoi...

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Susan Glasser, the former editor of Politico and Foreign Policy, writes the "Letter from Washington" column for the The New Yorker. Her most recent book, written with Peter Baker, is The Divider:...

http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-565-susan-b-glasser

Rob Copeland is a finance reporter for The New York Times. His recent book is The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend . > “If I stab you, ...

http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-564-rob-copeland

Miles Johnson is an investigative reporter for the Financial Times. He is the author of Chasing Shadows: A True Story of Drugs, War and the Secret World of International Crime and the host of Ho...

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Daisy Alioto is a journalist and the CEO of Dirt Media . > “I don't think I was ever super precious about my writing, but if > I was, I'm zero percent precious about it ...

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Ian Coss is a journalist, audio producer, and composer. He is the host of Forever is a Long Time and The Big Dig . > “One thing that I really carried with me in making the show ...

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Mosi Secret has written for ProPublica, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ. His new podcast is Radical . > “I think this story made me call on parts of myself that are not > j...

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