Feature Reporting & Writing

A worker wearing a red shirt swings a machete to cut sugarcane.

Storygram: Fletcher Reveley’s “In El Salvador and Beyond, an Unsolved Kidney Disease Mystery”

Lauren Gravitz

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The Secret to Never Writing a First Draft

Siri Carpenter

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Mathematics Reporting: An Uncrowded Niche for Writers

Erica Klarreich

John Branch Forms a Rich Story Out of Fog’s Hazy Future

Shi En Kim

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Reporting on Assistive Technology

Amanda Morris

A sketchbook with a pie chart and handwritten notes about dark matter is partially obscured by an open magazine featuring a Venn diagram of possible dark matter categories.

Tip Sheet: Designing Science Graphics

Jen Christiansen

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Choosing Unconventional Main Characters

Shi En Kim

A man with windblown hair standing in front of a rugged stone wall with elaborate carvings in the stones.

Joshua Sokol Explores the Night Sky and Our Relationship with It

Pratik Pawar

A bunch of crumpled paper balls sit on a desk in the foreground. In the background, a writer sits at the desk with pencil and paper, trying again.

Don’t Despair: How to Handle Writer’s Block

Pedro Márquez-Zacarías

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How to Report on Animal Research Fairly and Transparently

Celia Ford

Yao-Hua Law Reports on the Nuances of Rainforest Loss in Peninsular Malaysia

Shi En Kim

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How to Find and Publish Stories about Global Disease Outbreaks for an International Audience

Pratik Pawar

A child wearing cardboard airplane wings and a cloth helmet and goggles stands in a field with one arm thrust upward, as if preparing for flight.

Speculative Journalism Blends Fact and Fiction to Get to the Truth

Shi En Kim

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How to Report International Stories Ethically

Shi En Kim

Ankur Paliwal Tells the Tale of a Rare Genetic Disorder and People Who Live with It

Pratik Pawar

A sunflower seedling in a yellow pot with the shadow of a full-grown sunflower projected on a while wall behind it.

The Pitch as Hypothesis: How Stories Evolve through Reporting

Pedro Márquez-Zacarías

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Hold the Line: Reporting without Phone or Internet Access

Aishwarya Jagani

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Making Your Science Writing Sing: Craft Lessons from Poetry

Bradley Allf