Madeline Bodin

2 weeks ago | therevelator.org | Madeline Bodin

For decades I observed the paradox. The landscape around the coastal North Carolina home where my parents retired was being developed at a rate that I have never seen anywhere. Yet right across a frenetic, four-lane state highway from my parents’ house sat a 63,000-acre state refuge — a little gem of native habitat supporting a longleaf pine savanna and a unique wetland called pocosin or Carolina bay.

2 months ago | chestertelegraph.org | Madeline Bodin

The Chester Telegraph | Feb 04, 2025 | Comments 0 By Madeline BodinThe candidates we elected to the state legislature are getting down to business in Montpelier, but it’s not too soon to learn from the last election. While the next two-year state election cycle has already officially begun, we can expect campaign signs to pop up on lawns again in about 18 months.

Sep 26, 2024 | niemanstoryboard.org | Madeline Bodin

Tagged with Business of journalism fact-checking Freelance Self editing By Madeline Bodin Seattle-based freelance journalist Wudan Yan is a founder, producer and host of The Writers’ Co-op podcast. She’s a business coach, a content marketing writer and an advocate for fair and prompt pay for freelancers. She’s a knitter of beautiful sweaters, a rock climber and a long-distance hiker who takes on continent-spanning trails. Next month, to add to that extensive bio, she will open the virtual...

May 1, 2024 | niemanstoryboard.org | Madeline Bodin

Tagged with 2024 Power of Narrative Interviewing techniques Narrative timeline Organizing notes Source relationships EDITOR’S NOTE: This is our final dispatch from the 2024 Power of Narrative conference. For earlier posts, see deadline narratives by a Wall Street Journal podcast team, the braided structure used by The Atavist for complex stories, practical tips on empathy as a reporting tool and John Woodrow Cox on interviewing children about gun violence. By Madeline Bodin To write “I Lived...

Apr 21, 2024 | chestertelegraph.org | Madeline Bodin

The Chester Telegraph | Apr 22, 2024 | Comments 0 By Madeline Bodin©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLCOn social media, the “’90s kids” rule nostalgia, with shoutouts to Britney Spears and the earlyvideo game Oregon Trail. You don’t hear from ’70s kids. We got the oil crisis, disco and inflation. I saw inflation first-hand, even as a small child. In elementary school, my half-pint of milk went from 3 cents to 5.