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@berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social graduate student Ara Rosenthal was taking a feature writing class when she had the opportunity to pitch Wired editor John Gravois later becoming her Wired piece about a community's response to the Epstein files. Rosenthal found the process "very collaborative."

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Some of the things Rosenthal learned through the process from @johngravois.bsky.social were how to get sources to open up and why sometimes the most simple storytelling is doing it chronologically. www.wired.com/story/epstei...

wired.comA Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked OutAn Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

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For this week's DEPTH PERCEPTION, @jennaschnuer.bsky.social speaks with Rosenthal about the backstory of her piece for Wired, some of what she’s learning in j-school, and about the ways journalism has changed in the years since she first thought of becoming a reporter. Read now.

depthperception.longlead.comHer community wanted an Epstein story to disappear. An unlikely journalist made it go viral insteadDespite being a graduate student, Ara Rosenthal hooked a Wired editor with a stunning story pitch. A crash course in free speech and magazine feature writing came next.