Julia Craven is a freelance reporter who has been covering health, wellness, and fitness with cultural nuance since 2019. She’s the brain behind Make It Make Sense, a weekly health + wellness newsletter available on Substack. Before this, she spent five years reporting on race and politics. She’s a born, bred, and educated North Carolina Tar Heel. Her work, “It’s Not Too Late To Save Black Lives,” which focuses on how public officials can lessen the impact of COVID-19 on Black folks, is featured in the 2021 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing.
Tantalizing bits of information were happily fed to the public in the days leading up to the release of “Confidence Man,” a meaty look at everything from Donald Trump’s upbringing to his presidency by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. Read more
In April 2020, as the pandemic was raging across the United States, Ed Yong noticed that many people he interviewed felt exhausted. They worked in pandemic preparedness or emergency response before the virus was officially found in the United States. Read more
Which came first: The reporting or the followers? The writing or the platform? The journalist or the brand? It can be hard to tell. I’ve mulled over this contemporary paradox since veteran New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and Taylor … Read more
