It’s amazing what we can learn when we are expected to conduct conversations with people who aren’t interested in speaking with us at all. My experiences interviewing victims, witnesses and suspects ...

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you,” wrote the philosopher ...

Is listening a lost art? On TV news and talk shows, everyone seems to be interrupting one another. Likewise in the political arena. Listening is especially rare on social media, where people are eager ...

This year, we revived the “WriteLane” podcast and got to listen as the Tampa Bay Times’ Lane DeGregory and retired editor Maria Carrillo spoke with winners of the 2025 Poynter Journalism Prizes about ...