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      <title><![CDATA[How to be a Diversity Hire]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[So, you're hired. Here's what comes next.]]></description>
      <author>Yacob Reyes</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Goodnight, Grandpa]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A micro-memoir on loss, in fewer than 40 words]]></description>
      <author>Yacob Reyes</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sonder]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[ A micro-memoir on coming of age and becoming a storyteller]]></description>
      <author>Yacob Reyes</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Hardwick Gazette]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:01:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Who's in?]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nightstand]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:45:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Seems like so many exciting new books from friends are hitting the shelves this summer and fall. Here's my rundown. Correct my oversight. And what are you reading? Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon, by Kelley Benham French and Tom French. One In a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine, by Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher. Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South, by Beth Macy.]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dying Alone]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 13:24:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Rebecca Woolington: The obituary ran six days after the death of Madaline Christine Pitkin. It recalled the sunny early October evening she was born. It told stories from her childhood, the time she wanted to jump rope like the older girls, the way she loved all animals except spiders. It said she spent her time taking black-and-white photographs. It described her as spunky, candid, independent. It didn't say how or where she died — only that she "passed away unexpectedly."]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Everyone Leaves Behind a Name]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2016 14:18:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[NiemanStoryboard launched an eight-week project showcasing the work of Michael Brick, which is collected in Everybody Leaves Behind a Name: True Stories. Here's a Q and A about the book. And here's the first story, with an essay from Wright: The story of Mr. Todd Fatjo's departure from his truly dope duplex loft is one of those rare pieces that manages to capture a subculture in a moment of transition, and were that all the story did, it would be a success. Most people wouldn't have seen a flier]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[We Were Right]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Interesting findings in this new study by Tim Rosenstiel for the Brookings Institute, who says the path toward sustainable journalism is being undermined by terrible data (thanks, John): Major enterprise pays – The single biggest change publishers can make is to produce more major enterprise journalism. Major enterprise stories scored 48 percent better than others in a measure of overall engagement. However, just one percent of all content produced is classified as such.]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Enigmatic Life Of Anthony Monaco]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:46:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[John Ferro (thanks, Oliver): HIGHLAND – The small, frail man with an Italian passport would arrive unannounced, trundling a small suitcase behind him. Like a wispy Willy Loman, but with nothing to sell, Anthony Monaco would appear from time to time at one of the motels along Route 299 in New Paltz or Route 9W in Highland. He had no family there. No desire to go sightseeing. He talked at length with almost no one.]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fight]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:07:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Dan Barry: YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Numbered balls of chance rattle and rise two nights a week down at the cavernous community hall of Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It's called a good bingo when your number comes up. But that last Saturday before Christmas offered no good bingos. The night was reserved for a boxing event billed as Season's Beatings, which had prompted a newspaper deliveryman named Anthony Taylor to pull up in his clattering Dodge Caravan. Twenty-four years old, 5 feet]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Busting Cactus Thieves]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:56:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Weston Phippen: Yevgeny Safronov and the four tourists landed in Los Angeles on a 70-degree dream of a day last May. They were Czechs, Slovaks, and Russians, here on vacation. It was a holiday, so the banks and much of government had closed, but not all of it. For at least six months investigators in federal agencies that watch the nation's wild lands, its fauna and flora, had also kept eyes on these five foreigners, who would soon drive into the desert, where undercover agents would be waiting.]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[In The Land Of Missing Persons]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:10:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Alex Tizon: They found what was left of him in the spring of 2014. Firefighters battling a huge blaze on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula first spotted a boot in the dirt. Then they noticed some bones scattered across a wide grassy area. Fire crews in Alaska are used to seeing the bones of moose, caribou, bears, and other large creatures that live and die in these woods. So it wasn't until crew members found a human skull that they stopped to consider that the pieces might go together. The skull was res]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Goodbye, 600]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2016 20:01:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Tommy T (thanks, Oliver): The business I love has put a lot of good people on the street and left behind a lot of empty buildings. I love it anyway, and so do the people who came by the paper Thursday, not so much to say goodbye to the old building but to say hello again to one another. I did most of the best work of my life with those people, and had most of the good times I'll ever have, and met the woman I married. Newspapers can break your heart. But I'll let it be broken every time for what]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Everyone Leaves Behind A Name]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:08:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[We've been talking about Michael Brick's craftsmanship here for years. Here's your chance to own a remarkable collection of his stories in book form, including several I guarantee you've never read. This anthology, which debuted at number 1 in essays on Amazon, also features essays on craft from Dan Barry, Andy Newman, Michael Kruse, Thomas Lake, Tony Rehagen, Wright Thompson, Justin Heckert, Chris Jones, Erin Sullivan, Mike Wilson, Michael Wilson, Charles McNair, Tommy Tomlinson, Amy Wallace, M]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[His Faithful Servant]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:52:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Randy R. Potts: I waited in my car for 20 minutes. No last name, precise instructions: "Meet me at the truck stop at the corner of 259 and 144 and I'll take you on from there. You should write it down because you won't have cell service." I found a truck stop but there wasn't a sign for Highway 144; a man pulled up in a black pickup with a Pomeranian in his lap; you could see the Choctaw in the man's kind face. I climbed into his passenger seat and he drove the rest of the way, talking, laughing]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is 90% of longform crap?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:24:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Here is the dirty secret of longform: most people, even those who urge its consumption, don't actually read it. Longform may win awards and it may bring prestige, but it remains at least as subject to Sturgeon's law—90 percent of everything is crap—as any other format. (Guest post by Raja)]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Two Lives, One Night]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:24:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Naomi Martin and Dave Tarrant: Had they met under different circumstances, the two 20-year-olds could have easily been friends. Sara Mutschlechner loved Quentin Tarantino films and Japanese anime. She played the drums, earned a black belt in karate and cried at Disney movies. She wrote scripts, made funny videos of her cat and dreamed of directing movies. Eric Johnson was artistic, too. He was passionate about photography, painting and wrote his own hip-hop songs under a persona that was wilder,]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:32:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Daniel Engber in WIRED: THE BRAIN SURGERY lasted 11 and a half hours, beginning on the afternoon of June 21, 2014, and stretching into the Caribbean predawn of the next day. In the afternoon, after the anesthesia had worn off, the neurosurgeon came in, removed his wire-frame glasses, and held them up for his bandaged patient to examine. "What are these called?" he asked. Phil Kennedy stared at the glasses for a moment. Then his gaze drifted up to the ceiling and over to the television. "Uh … uh ]]></description>
      <author>Janine Anderson</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brick By Brick]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:12:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA["That word though, if it is a word: Overwritten. In recent years it's become a sledgehammer in the hands of too many cowardly, unambitious, ladder-climbing, cow-in-a-swivel-chair editors. The good ones know how to tell you where to dial it back, and finding a good one is mission critical. I've been lucky in that regard. The bad ones are hanging a kneejerk, uninspired, boardroom groupthink scarlet O on stylish writing." — Michael Brick]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Meet the Man Who's Been Spoiling 'The Bachelor' for Four Years]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2016 20:11:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Jon Caraminico in the New York Times: FRISCO, Tex. — A little more than a month ago, Ben Higgins, the warmly handsome star of the coming season of "The Bachelor," got down on one knee at the Sandals Royal Plantation resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, and proposed marriage. At least, this is the information that, a day later, the blogger Stephen Carbone received as a tip from one of his many sources. A few days after that, after more reporting, he posted the scoop on his website,RealitySteve.com, spoi]]></description>
      <author>Janine Anderson</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Unsolved]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:43:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Are y'all keeping up with this serial narrative? Here's Part 1 to get you going. From Gina Barton: Mark Zera and his father made their way down the deserted rural road from their home to Franklin High School and back again. As his father drove slowly through the darkness, Mark ran back and forth behind the car, scanning the roadside ditches for some sign of his brother. John, 14, hadn't come home from school that day. Maybe he had been hit by a car and was lying there, hurt, needing help.]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Manning Up]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:35:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Konrad Marshall: Billy is a mean bastard. He has a lot on his mind. He isn't getting shifts. His missus is nagging him for petrol money. Didn't he already give her some? Billy gets a beer, tries to relax, but she won't let it rest. Won't get off his back. So he stands over her. Holds her down. Yells in her scared little face. Grabs her skinny shoulders and squeezes, nice and hard. Eyes wild, he screams some more. Kicks her out and locks the door.]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Son Learns To Live Without The Mother He Just Rediscovered]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:58:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Casey Parks (thanks, Emily): MYRTLE CREEK — Walter Dickens weaved through his mother's boxes to answer a knock at the door. It was the fourth one that Sunday afternoon, two days since he'd met the president and 10 since he lost his mother, Sarena Moore, in the shootings at Umpqua Community College. Like all the rest, this latest visitor brought something other than answers. "More dog food," Dickens said, peeking through the blanket that served as blinds. "And trash bags."]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Sad Life Of The Brisket Bandit]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:34:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Michael Brick: AUSTIN – The man behind the glass partition was famous. His photograph appeared on statewide news sites and national food blogs, wanted as the architect of a brazen scheme. When officials requested public assistance in his capture last year, they accused him of stealing thousands of dollars worth of meat from at least 19 grocery stores. He most likely devised an ad-hoc black market, police said, among the legitimate middlemen who connect ranchers to trendy steakhouses and barbecue]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[When You Share Your Life]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:42:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Jessica Contrera (thanks, Michael): When 13-year-old Caleb LeBlanc's death made the news this week, millions of people already knew him. He wasn't a pop star, an up-and-coming actor or a child prodigy. He was a boy who liked to wear his hair floppy, play baseball, and belt out nonsensical songs about being a baked potato — all for an audience usually bigger than the population of his home state. Caleb, whose parents said he died of an "undetected medical condition," was the oldest son of the "Br]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Know We're Done For]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:52:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Patrick Rapa: … About 24 hours before you read this, City Paper will cease operations. Like a lobster, we were purchased to be killed and consumed. For the purposes of this metaphor, my co-workers and I are the empty red parts. The archives will go wherever they go. The people will scatter. Listen: We knew what we were getting into, sort of. As much as we may romanticize the newspaper business, nobody mistakes it for a stable or lucrative career choice. Alt-weekly employees especially recognize ]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Looking For Answers]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:34:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Justin George: As massive protest marches continued across Baltimore, the pressure was building inside police headquarters, and Commissioner Anthony W. Batts wanted answers — fast. Near midnight on a cool April night, he pressed six top commanders sitting at a conference table for details about Freddie Gray's death. A 30-person task force was interviewing witnesses, reviewing video and searching records in the days after Gray died, but crucial questions remained. Did Gray suffer an injury before]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tragedy on deadline]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2015 17:39:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AARON YOST and TROY BRYNELSON in the Roseburg, Ore. News-Review: Hannah Miles sat on a plastic chair inside cavernous Douglas Hall, wrapped in a white Red Cross blanket, shaking. A grief counselor spoke with her. Another approached with a cell phone and made a call for her. Ten minutes later, Miles was no longer alone. Her sister Hailey wrapped her in a close hug. Her father, Gary Miles, a pastor at Christian Life Center in Roseburg, consoled her.]]></description>
      <author>Janine Anderson</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[My Kidnappers]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:02:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Bradford Pearson: Hello, my name is Brad Pearson. In March 2006, you were one of three people who kidnapped me in West Philadelphia.
I'm writing this letter not because I'm angry at you, or upset, or hurt. The opposite, actually. While the kidnapping and investigation were difficult for me, in the end they made me a stronger man.
I'm a magazine writer now, and I've always hoped to talk to you and Jerry and Mordi about that night, and what your lives have been like since. I'd either like to do th]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The End Of War]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:27:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Mark Warren (thanks, Tim): The forces of Libyan president Muammar Qaddafi had been firing high-explosive ordnance into the city of Misurata for weeks—they'd been shooting tank rounds and they'd been firing rockets. Barrage after barrage. And lots of mortars. And among the 120mm mortars they had been firing were Spanish-made rounds that were a clustering munition that had never been seen in combat before. This was a serious problem, because we now know that the Spaniards had sold the mortars to t]]></description>
      <author>Ben Montgomery</author>
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