Episode 145—Investigative Reporter Scott Eden Talks Structure, Sprawl, and Picking Up the Phone

"At what point are you taxing the reader?" asks Scott Eden, "knowing when the reader has had enough."

That’s Scott Eden, investigative reporter for ESPN the Magazine and THIS is The Creative Nonfiction Podcast.

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So Scott Eden is here. He’s an intrepid reporter and we got to dig deep into his process and deconstructed how he wrote his piece on the former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who gambled on the games he reffed and essentially fixed games.

Thanks to Goucher College’s MFA in Nonfiction and Bay Path Unviersity’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction for making this show possible.

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