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Celebrity Deaths: How Newsrooms Handle the Hardest Story
Obituaries written years in advance, verification under deadline, and the ethics of covering a star's passing.
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How to Write a Profile That Readers Remember
The interviews, the structure, and the small details that turn a famous name into a person on the page.
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Profiles in Ignorance: What Happens When Famous People Get History Wrong
The public factual blunder is its own television genre — and the interesting question is not why celebrities stumble, but why we keep the clips.
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Why We Can't Look Away: The Psychology of Entertainment News
Parasocial bonds and gossip's old job as social currency explain a lot about the celebrity beat.
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Profile Interview Questions — The Profile Interview: How Reporters Get People to Open Up
Good profile interviews are built, not stumbled into. Here is how question design, rapport, and close listening actually work.