Webinar: Pulitzer winner Katie Engelhart to share tips for managing complex stories
Mark your calendars! The Society for Features Journalism has a free virtual event coming up on Oct. 15 with Katie Engelhart, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for “The Mother Who Changed: A Story of Dementia.”
Engelhart will be interviewed by Maria Carrillo, a veteran editor and Pulitzer juror. Their conversation will cover a range of topics, including:
tips for maintaining control of complicated, emotionally charged stories;
advice on how to get sources to open up for extended periods of time — and where to mine for rich information even if they won’t;
insights about what editors can and should do to make complex stories sing;
the special challenges of being a working mom in the journalism trenches,
and much more!
To get the most from this discussion, be sure to read “The Mother Who Changed: A Story of Dementia” in The New York Times Magazine and listen to the accompanying podcast episode about the story on “The Daily.”
Here are details about the event:
DATE: Tuesday, Oct. 15
TIME: 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. CT / 11 a.m. PT
ZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88992676333?pwd=VVudhcA5QS6PviCIHFdlltyKWBoAcz.1
Please save the date, time and Zoom link and join us for this event. We hope to see you on Oct. 15!
ABOUT OUR PARTICIPANTS:
Courtesy of Katie Engelhart
Katie Engelhart is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. She writes about medicine and ethics. In 2024, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her story “The Mother Who Changed: A Story of Dementia.” She is also the recipient of the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting and the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism for her 2020 story “What Happened in Room 10?” Engelhart is the author of the 2021 book “The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die,” published by St. Martin’s Press. Previously, she was a correspondent for VICE News and a documentary film producer at NBC News. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.
Courtesy of Maria Carrillo
Maria Carrillo is a consultant and coach after spending 36 years in seven newsrooms. She was enterprise editor at the Tampa Bay Times and Houston Chronicle and, before that, managing editor at The Virginian-Pilot. She has edited dozens of award-winning projects, often lectures on narrative journalism and co-hosts a podcast (WriteLane) about craft. She is a board member of the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism, a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute and a juror for the Hillman Prizes. She has been a Pulitzer Prize juror six times. Carrillo was born in Washington, D.C., two years after her parents left Cuba in exile. She now lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Laura T. Coffey is president of the Society for Features Journalism and a longtime editor and feature writer. She’s also the author of the bestselling nonfiction book “My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts.” Connect with Laura here.