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Exquisitely Challenging: Reporting on Suicide

Dec 21, 2021
33:52
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
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2
How to Write a Good Story
01:54 • 5min
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3
Why Isn't This a Story About Suicide?
06:38 • 2min
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4
Finn's Interviews - I Don't Want to Catch You Out
08:31 • 5min
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5
The Sound of Two People Playing Catch, Crushed Me
13:26 • 2min
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6
The Story of a Bell
15:05 • 4min
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7
A Letter to the Town of Greensborog
19:05 • 3min
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8
Abola, How Are You Doing?
21:48 • 3min
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9
Is This Really What It Sounds Like?
24:29 • 4min
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10
Finn's Life Flashing Before Your Eyes
28:48 • 3min
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11
The Transom Crew in Woods Hole
31:58 • 2min
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Erica Heilman's story "Finn and the Bell" is the best I’ve heard this year. It's a painful, graceful story about a young man's suicide in rural Vermont. Erica's heart is in the piece; you can hear it in every production and editorial choice. The story of how she made those choices is enlightening.

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