For his first major feature, freelancer Brendan Borrell crisscrossed Bolivia for 2 ½ weeks in an old truck with notebook, recorder, and camera, waiting out roadblocks, going a long time between meals, and of course munching hot chili peppers. [What’s So Hot About Chili Peppers? appeared in Smithsonian in April 2009.] Here, Borrell tells the [...]
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Brendan Borrell jets to Bolivia for a hot story on chili peppers
Posted by Jeanne Erdmann on November 24th, 2010
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews 
Tags: Borrell, Drafts, Erdmann, Field Reporting, Narrative, Pitches, Profile, Smithsonian, Writer Interview 
No Comments »Tina Saey couldn’t sleep, and she wanted to know why
Posted by Jeanne Erdmann on November 1st, 2010
For a special issue of Science News, staff writer Tina Saey explored research on why we sleep—and what happens when we can’t. Here, Saey, who wrote the package along with staff writers Laura Sanders and Susan Milius, relates how she wrestled dozens of interviews and hundreds of scientific papers on wide-ranging questions into a cohesive [...]
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