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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says there's a link between alcohol and cancer. And on Friday, he called on Congress to put warning labels on alcoholic drinks. Dr. Celine Gounder from KFF Health News explains. And, the Biden administration blocked the controversial takeover of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel. Bloomberg's Joe Deaux explains why. Then, a 2023 case involving a controversial diagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome" turned a family's life upside down. Pamela Colloff, reporter for ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, joins us.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
The Wall Street Journal’s Alexander Osipovich explains the legal battle over whether Americans will be able to wager on election results. Ukraine is asking for permission to use long-range U.S. missiles to strike deep inside Russia. The Washington Post reports. Pamela Colloff writes in ProPublica about how a medical examiner has recanted testimony that a child died of shaken-baby syndrome, but the father is still in prison for murder. It’s an update of her earlier reporting on the story. Hurricane Francine made landfall in Louisiana, bringing flooding and powerful winds. CNN has details. The Harris-Trump debate drew much stronger ratings than June’s Biden-Trump debate. The Hollywood Reporter looks at the numbers. The father of an 11-year-old who was killed in a crash called on the Trump campaign to stop referencing his son’s death. NBC News has more. The Tennessean has the story of how Jon Bon Jovi helped talk a woman off a bridge ledge. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
Episode 195: This week on the “Dan's Talks” podcast, Dan speaks with journalist Pamela Colloff. She has contributed to The New Yorker, but a … Read More
Managing editor of the Clifton Record, W. Leon Smith, continued working both Judy Whitley and Mickey Bryan's cases for years. In 1999, when ex-Clifton policeman Dennis Murry Dunlap was officially named Judy's killer, Leon was almost certain Joe Bryan hadn't murdered his wife Mickey but couldn't find the evidence to exonerate him. A few years later, a Waco attorney began looking into Joe's case and was appalled at the lack of evidence he was convicted on. It was this attorney's student at Baylor University Law, Jessica Freud, however, that inarguably proved Joe Dale Bryan should not have been convicted. Still, an old school, old guard Texas judge wasn't willing to write the wrong the state had made.Support the Texas Innocence Project at innocencetexas.orgYou can support Gone Cold – Texas True Crime and listen to the show ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us at https://www.gonecold.comFollow gone cold on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, and X. Search @gonecoldpodcast at all or just click linknbio.com/gonecoldpodcastSources: innocencetexas.org, The Clifton Record and the reporting of W. Leon Smith, The Austin American-Statesman, The New York Times' two-part series “Blood Will Tell” by Pamela Colloff, The Waco Tribune-Herald, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172881/, court appeal documents, and 20/20 ABC.#JusticeForMickeyBryan #JusticeForJoeBryan #JusticeForHelenKilgore #JusticeForSheliaVandygriff #CliftonTX #WacoTX #BosqueCountyTX #Texas #TX #TrueCrime #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #Unsolved #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #Disappeared #Vanished #MissingPerson #Missing #Homicide #UnsolvedMurder #ColdCaseBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
Bloodstain pattern experts falsely claim that they can identify the culprit of violent crimes by examining the shape and distribution of bloodstains from a crime scene. But, bloodstain pattern evidence has no grounding in any verifiable science. So how did this kind of junk science become admissible? Josh Dubin, civil rights and criminal defense attorney, explores bloodstain pattern evidence with Pamela Colloff, senior reporter at ProPublica and staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science. To learn more and get involved, please visit: https://cifsjustice.org/donate/ Pamela Coloff's two part story on the Joe Bryan case Blood Will Tell - ProPublica Part 1 https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/mickey-bryan-murder-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/ Part 2 https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/joe-bryan-conviction-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/ National Academy of Sciences: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/junk-science Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In Episode 119, Keri Blakinger joins me to discuss her debut memoir, Corrections in Ink, a mind-blowing personal story, also speaks to the broader issues of addiction and women in the prison system. Keri went from being an elite figure skater in her youth to being arrested for possession of heroin while a student at Cornell, and then serving two years in the New York prison system. In her memoir, Keri is self-reflective, sharing what is ultimately a hopeful and redemptive story, despite the dark places it goes along the way. This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights When and why Keri decided to share her story in book form. How the pandemic impacted her journalism career and writing her memoir. The connection between her figure skating, her mental health, and her drug addiction. Some of the bigger surprises she experienced in prison. How Keri thinks she managed to overcome the statistics and “make good on a second chance.” An example of the ways inmates work around some of the arbitrary and unwritten rules of jail. All about ‘books in jail': requesting and ordering books, time allotted to reading, access, and prison libraries. Keri's personal reading experience in jail and covering this topic as a journalist. Current issues Keri is investigating within the prison system. Keri's Book Recommendations [32:02] Two OLD Books She Loves Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | Amazon | Bookshop.org [32:17] The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein | Amazon | Bookshop.org [33:56] Two NEW Books She Loves Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough | Amazon | Bookshop.org [37:30] Breathing Fire by Jaime Lowe | Amazon | Bookshop.org [39:33] One Book She DIDN'T LOVE Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn | Amazon | Bookshop.org [41:47] One NEW RELEASE She's Excited About A Deal with the Devil by Pamela Colloff (November 2023) | [44:04] Last 5-Star Book Keri Read Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:20] Other Books Mentioned On Lynchings by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (new edition on November 15, 2022) [26:43] Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson [27:13] The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern [29:30] The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger [29:42] Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman [30:28] The Keep by Jennifer Egan [30:32] About Keri Blakinger Website | Twitter | Instagram Keri Blakinger is a Texas-based investigative reporter and the author of the Corrections in Ink, a memoir tracing her path from figure skating to heroin addiction to prison and, finally, to life as a journalist covering mass incarceration. Currently reporting for The Marshall Project, her work covering criminal justice, has previously appeared in VICE, the New York Daily News, the BBC, and The New York Times. She previously worked for the Houston Chronicle and was a member of the Chronicle‘s Pulitzer-finalist team in 2018. Her 2019 coverage of women's jails for The Washington Post Magazine helped earn a National Magazine Award.
Nancy is reporting from San Francisco, because your roving journos go where the story leads, whether that's a discount motel room in Fairfax, Virginia, or a 30-room mansion with a view of the Painted Ladies. First order of business is not The Verdict, but Teal Swan and recent episodes of Hulu series The Deep End, whose jaw-dropping scenes of alternate therapy have pushed Sarah from her neutrality. Embedding trauma in your lost followers is dangerous stuff. By the way, Sarah and Nancy agree you can use your sex appeal for the greater good, but that ain't what Teal Swan is doing.Now for That Verdict. How does a trial change when it has a jury? How could Heard's statement that she was “a public figure representing domestic abuse” be defamatory? Is this verdict “chilling,” as legacy media claims, or a “major victory” as Depp supporters believe? What if it's neither? Discussed: blackout drinking, revelations of the Depp-Heard therapy sessions, and why the ACLU is not covering itself in glory.Various and sundry: Sarah can't ID one Gary Cooper movie; Nancy doesn't grock what Sarah means when she asks about Maverick. Sarah finds social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's voice “fundamentally soothing”; teenage Nancy runs into Paul Newman. Sarah waxes poetic about crow's feet; Nancy explains why you should always keep tweezers in your car.Sarah goes for brooding pretty boys; Nancy likes he-men. Or something like that.Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em only gets better when you become a free or paid subscriber.Episode notes:The Deep End, documentary series about Teal Swan Sarah compares a Teal Swan group meeting to those held at Esalen (which has a pretty swank location tbh)Teal Swan addresses episode two of The Deep End:Satanic ritual abuse + hot thigh action is a thing“The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial,” by A.O. Scott (NYT)“‘Men Always Win': Survivors ‘Sickened' by the Amber Heard Verdict,” by EJ Dickson (Rolling Stone)“Jessica Winter: The Johnny Depp–Amber Heard Verdict Is Chilling” (New Yorker)Texts from Depp's assistant Stephen Deuters, ruled out of US trial as hearsay (reddit)Depp-Heard Marital Therapist Dr. Laurel Anderson testimony“The Depp-Heard Trial and the Demise of the ACLU,” by Jonathan TurleyMeanwhile, over in East Germany…“The Case Against the Trauma Plot,” by Parul Sehgal (New Yorker)Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, by Sarah Hepola“The ACLU Has Lost Its Way,” by Lara Bazelon (Atlantic)Mighty Ira official trailerThe Fountainhead (1949), official trailer”America's Girls” podcast, with Sarah Hepola (Texas Monthly)“Ex-Washington cheerleaders shaken by lewd videos: ‘I Don't Think They Saw Us As People,'” by Beth Reinhard, Liz Clarke, Alice Crites, and Will Hobson (Washington Post) As I Am, by Patricia Neal (Amazon)“Uniquely Stupid and Incredibly Coddled: Jonathan Haidt On How We Lost Our Collective Minds (And Whether We'll Ever Find Them Again),” The Unspeakable podcast with Meghan DaumWe love the strikingly brilliant journalist Pamela Colloff, and you will tooOutro song: “Cruel to Be Kind” by Nick LoweAnd for all those hustlers out there …Run the table by becoming a free or paid subscriberEveryone is welcome at our party, so please share the love that is Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit smokeempodcast.substack.com/subscribe
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode deals with themes of gun violence, frank talk of death, child death, and mental illness. If you AT ANY TIME feel like things are getting too heavy, pause the episode, watch some cat videos, come back if you feel you can, or listen/watch something else if you feel you can't. Your health comes first! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Are we ready for more UNSPEAKABLE ACTS? This book is a BRILLIANT anthology of modern true-crime articles that have changed the game in terms of the genre, and which have reignited a more sophisticated approach to true crime in general. Today, we are continuing this book and delving into the crimes of Charles Whitman, through the lens of one of his victims. "The Reckoning" by Pamela Colloff is a wonderfully understated true-crime masterpiece, and it is in this anthology that we get to read it together! Let's read! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Want to help me do this full-time? Want added benefits that the average podcast listener just simply won't get here? Then why not consider joining my Patreon! I promise it won't let you down! PATREON LINK: https://www.patreon.com/asliceofham _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Let me know what you think! You can leave a voice message in the link below, and you can also reach out through my Tiktok and Instagram links! Tiktok: @mrhamilton Instagram: @chsteakhouse --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/casey-hamilton4/message
Anthony Charles Graves is an exonerated death row inmate. In his 20's, he was arrested, charged with, and wrongfully convicted of the murder of a family of six in Somerville, Texas. During our conversation, Anthony talks about how he was convicted without a motive or physical evidence, the prosecutor's reliance on eyewitness testimony, his 18 years in prison, his twice being scheduled for lethal injection, the events that led to his eventual release, and his forthcoming podcast, "Infinite Hope," which will share the stories of other wrongfully convicted citizens.------------Support this podcast via VenmoSupport this podcast via PayPalSupport this podcast on Patreon------------Show notesLeave a rating on SpotifyLeave a rating on Apple PodcastsFollow Keep Talking on Twitter, Instagram, and FacebookListen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube------------(01:15) Anthony talks about his life before his wrongful conviction.(04:11) The horrific crime that Anthony was later wrongfully convicted for.(05:59) How and why Anthony was dragged into the case.(10:35) Anthony recounts the day he was charged for the murders.(13:38) The role of racism.(17:14) Convicted before the hearing and what happened in the court.(18:50) The defense at the trial.(20:40) The evidence presented to convict Anthony.(22:01) Robert Carter's relationship with Anthony.(23:08) The reason why Robert Carter testified against Anthony.(26:42) The conviction of Anthony and the role of the prosecutor.(34:06) How people began to know about his case and believe that he was innocent(39:04) The times Anthony was about to be executed and how he was saved(40:15) Life as a murder convict.(43:04) How Anthony kept from reaching a mental health breaking point.(44:22) The role of Pamela Colloff and Nicole B. Casarez in saving Anthony's life(55:58) The article that triggered the special prosecutor to recommend that Anthony's charges be dismissed.(56:52) The day Anthony was released from prison.(01:04:43) Anthony's initiatives in helping innocent people get justice.(01:15:07) Sensationalism and the role of the media in cases of injustice.
Award-winning journalist Pamela Colloff reports on how the murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. But when Mickey's husband, Joe Bryan, was charged with killing her, controversial forensic evidence became the focal point. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake thanks to junk science? Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink/additional research Ella Middleton Subscribe to my newsletter: tenfoldmorewicked.com Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: info@tenfoldmorewicked.com Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2021 All Rights Reserved See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Conclusion of this episode: includes confessions of the perpetrators, evidence found, and trial results. Also includes how Terry Caffey intervened in their sentencing, what he thought of the perpetrators, and how he felt about his daughter when he found out about her involvement. Ends with excerpts from an article written by Pamela Colloff who interviewed Charlie 1 year after he was sentenced. Also what happened to Terry Calley having to deal with the grieving depression of loss of all his worldly belongings and his family.
Josh Dubin, civil rights and criminal defense attorney, and Innocence Ambassador to the Innocence Project in New York explores bloodstain pattern evidence with Pamela Colloff, senior reporter at ProPublica and staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Bloodstain pattern experts falsely claim that they can identify the culprit of violent crimes. But, bloodstain pattern evidence has no grounding in any verifiable science. So how did this kind of junk science become admissible? Learn more and get involved. Pamela Coloff’s two part story on the Joe Bryan case Blood Will Tell - ProPublica Part 1 https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/mickey-bryan-murder-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/ Part 2 https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/joe-bryan-conviction-blood-spatter-forensic-evidence/ National Academy of Sciences: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf http://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1 and PRX.
In the summer of 1945, the USS Indianapolis was tasked with a top secret mission. The ship was to transport materials for the atomic bomb that the United States would later drop on Hiroshima, Japan. Under the leadership of Captain Charles B. McVay III, the ship accomplished its mission. From there, the ship headed off to Guam, and then to the Philippines. But before they left for the Philippines, Captain McVay requested a destroyer escort. The USS Indianapolis didn’t have submarine detection equipment, but destroyer escorts did. His request was denied. So, off he sailed into submarine infested waters. Then Brandi tells us the story of the Caffey family murders. Terry Caffey woke up to a blast, riddled with bullets. Two men were in his bedroom. They had guns. One had a samurai sword. The men murdered his wife, Penny, and left Terry for dead. Soon, Terry smelled smoke. The men had set his house on fire. Nearly dead but desperate to get help, Terry found the strength to get himself to a neighbor’s house. And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases. In this episode, Kristin pulled from: http://www.ussindianapolis.org “Captain, once a scapegoat, is absolved,” by David Stout for the New York Times “USS Indianapolis sinking: ‘You could see sharks circling’” by Alex Last for the BBC “USS Indianapolis,” entry on Wikipedia “Charles B. McVay III,” entry on Wikipedia In this episode, Brandi pulled from: “Flesh and Blood” by Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly “Father Uses Family Massacre to Help Others” by David Lohr, AOLNews “Girl, 17, Gets 2 Life Terms In Family Slay” Associated Press, CBSNews “Family Slaughtered for Teen Love” episode Dr. Phil “Erin Caffey” episode Killer Women with Piers Morgan
How do some of the best narrative journalists find the stories they report and write about? This episode focuses on how four different reporters landed on stories that are still read and talked about today. In the first part, Luke Dittrich talks about how he ultimately decided to head to Joplin, Missouri, to report and write a story that won him a National Magazine Award. In Part II, Eli Saslow talks about how he landed himself in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, for the first piece in his Pulitzer Prize winning series on food stamps. In Part III, Pamela Colloff discusses the genesis of her National Magazine Award winning series The Innocent Man. Finally, Part IV is a snippet of a TedX Tampa talk that Michael Kruse gave, in which he discusses his story about Kathryn Norris, a woman who disappeared and was missing for 16 months, before someone found her body — in her own home. The first three parts all come from Gangrey: The Podcast archives. As usual, you can listen to every episode of the podcast, for free, on the website.
In her latest year-long investigation, Texas crime writing legend Pamela Colloff delved into the shadowy world of the con artist and jailhouse snitch whose testimony put four men on death row. In this episode, listen in as reporter and podcast host Keri Blakinger asks the Austin-based ProPublica writer about the problems with informants, the difficulties in reporting on them, and answers to a slew of Twitter-user questions about the process. Support the show.
Head of Audience Catherine Cusick and Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles share what they've been reading and working on this week. This week: [2:40] “He’s a Liar, a Con Artist and a Snitch. His Testimony Could Soon Send a Man to His Death.” (Pamela Colloff, December 4, 2019, ProPublica) [2:56] “Worked at Vice Then Went to Jail”: How a Bunch of Canadian Hipsters Wound Up Smuggling Cocaine (and Getting Caught)” (Kate Knibbs, December 2, 2019, The Ringer) [29:00] Sign up to get email updates from Pamela Colloff about her investigation into jailhouse informants and how she reported the story. Produced by Longreads and Charts & Leisure.
This episode features clips from four of the women included in the new anthology, “New Stories We Tell: True Tales by America’s New Generation of Great Women Journalists.” The book was recently published by The Sager Group. "New Stories We Tell" is the third in a series of anthologies celebrating women in longform journalism, featuring more than 50 great writers from the 1950s to the present. The first was “Newswomen: Twenty-Five Years of Front Page Journalism,” and was published in 2016. That book was followed two years later by “The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales By America’s Greatest Women Journalists.” Four reporters who have been on the podcast are included in the new book: Pamela Colloff, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Janet Reitman, and Brooke Jarvis. Additionally, the book’s editors, Kaylen Ralph and Joanna Demkiewicz, have been guests on the podcast. They helped with “Newswomen,” and talked about that book in 2016. They are the editors of “New Stories We Tell.” In this episode, you’ll hear from them, as well as clips from Colloff, Grigoriadis, Reitman, and Jarvis. You’ll also hear from Mike Sager, the founder and publisher of The Sager Group.
مایکل که از سر کار برگشت دید دور خانهشان نوار زرد کشیدهاند. منبع: مجلهی Texas Monthly نویسنده:Pamela Colloff | ترجمه: هدیه کعبی | روایت: علی بندری | تدوین: امید صدیقفر | پوستر: مجید آبپرور اسپانسرها : کشمون: لینک خرید با کد تخفیف 1398 روژین: اینستاگرام روژین اشتراک در خبرنامه پادکست صداهای میانی از مستند An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2555202/ لو برایان - عضو هیات منصفه در زمان محاکمهی نخستین مارک لاندروم- متخصص هیات منصفه بیل الیسون - عضو گروه وکلای مایکل مورتون در محاکمهی نخستین جان ریلی - وکیل اصلی گروه وکلای مورتون در مرحلهی بررسی دوبارهی پرونده-عضو پروژهی بیگناهی لی استینت - همبند پیشین مایکل مورتون بِری شَک - عضور گروه وکلای مورتون در مرحلهی بررسی دوبارهی پرونده - از بنیانگذاران و عضو پروژهی بیگناهی گفتوگوی مایکل مورتون با شنون ولفسن شبکهی KXAN
For 31 years, Joe Bryan has been in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit. He was convicted based on bloodstain-pattern analysis, but ProPublica’s Pamela Colloff says it's way less scientific than you might think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They’re survivors of four infamous mass-casualty shootings — and they’re victims. Here are their stories. Pamela Colloff, senior writer at ProPublica, moderates a discussion with Chris Grady, survivor of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting; Nicole Hockley, founder of Sandy Hook Promise; Suzanna Gratia Hupp, former state representative, R-Lampasas; and Frank Pomeroy, pastor of First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs. This event was recorded before a live audience during the 2018 Texas Tribune Festival.
Blood delivers oxygen to our tissues. It fights off infections. It courses through our veins. But can it help us catch a murderer? A little-known arm of forensic science, known as bloodstain pattern analysis, believes it can. On this week’s episode, Pamela Colloff, a senior reporter at ProPublica and writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine, takes us through her investigation into the case of Joe Bryan, a high school principal serving 99 years in prison for the murder of his wife. His conviction was based largely on expert testimony surrounding bloodstain patterns prosecutors argued placed Joe at the scene of the crime. EPISODE NOTES: bit.ly/2RPFKBb
Episode 3 features Pamela Colloff of Texas Monthly. Late last year, her two-part series, “The Innocent Man” was published. The story focuses on Michael Morton, who in 1987, was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife. In the podcast, Colloff talks about how she found out about the story, how she reported it and what it was like to shine light on a case like this. Colloff has written a lot of stories for Texas Monthly since joining the podcast. Most recently, and movingly, though, was a piece titled “The Reckoning,” which was about one of the victims of what is regarded as the first mass school shooting in the country’s history.
Pamela Colloff is a senior reporter at ProPublica and a writer-at-large at The New York Times Magazine. She was the third guest on the podcast back in January 2013, when she talked about her Texas Monthly series The Innocent Man. That episode has unfortunately been lost. Colloff ultimately won the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing for that story. On this show, Colloff talks about her two-part series, “Blood Will Tell,” her first project for ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine. In this extraordinary project, Colloff tells the story of Joe Bryan, a former principal in Texas and a man many believe was wrongfully-convicted of murdering his wife. Prior to joining ProPublica and the Times in 2017, Colloff was an executive editor and staff writer at Texas Monthly. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker and has been anthologized in “Best American Magazine Writing,” “Best American Crime Reporting,” “Best American Non-Required Reading,” and “Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists.” She is a six-time National Magazine Award finalist. Her 2010 story, “Innocence Lost” — about a wrongly convicted death row inmate named Anthony Graves — was credited with helping Graves win his freedom after 18 years behind bars. One month after its publication, all charges against Graves were dropped and he was released from jail, where he had been awaiting retrial. In 2014, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University awarded her the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Her oral history “96 Minutes,” about the 1966 University of Texas shootings, served as the basis for the 2016 documentary, “TOWER,” which was short-listed for an Academy Award in Best Documentary Film.
On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Jolie and the New York Times Magazine and ProPublica's Pamela Colloff on Pam's two-part "Blood Will Tell" series on blood spatter analysis and the state's consideration of intellectual disabilities in death row cases.
For the first time Lance took the Forward Podcast on the road in front of a live audience. Lance interviewed 3 investigative journalists at this years Texas Tribune Festival. Pamela Colloff of ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, Michael Hall of Texas Monthly and Tony Plohetski of the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV talked with Lance for an hour about their experiences and stories of wrongful convictions. All three journalists have written extensively about high profile cases in Texas. They discuss the challenges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, initial botched handling of cases and life after exoneration.
Month of Mayhem True Crime Series continues for our 2 Year Anniversary. On Ep 58 Paco, George and producer Will sit down with the Craig Staggs and Steph Swopes (Minnow Mountain) the animation director and producer of the 2016 documentary Tower. Tower is an animated documentary film directed by Keith Maitland about the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas at Austin. August 1, 1966, was the day our innocence was shattered. A sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the iconic University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes in what was a previously unimaginable event. TOWER combines archival footage with rotoscopic animation of the dramatic day, based entirely on first person testimonies from witnesses, heroes and survivors, in a seamless and suspenseful retelling of the unfolding tragedy. The film highlights the fear, confusion, and visceral realities that changed the lives of those present, and the rest of us, forever - a day when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others. The film is based on a 2006 Texas Monthly article by Pamela Colloff, "96 Minutes." Maitland originated from New Jersey and attended UT Austin. Maitland read the article in 2006 and asked Colloff to have lunch with him. He suggested making a film about the incident during the meeting. Colloff became one of the executive producers of the film. Early on Maitland realized that he and his team likely would not be able to film reenactments on the University campus and so they decided to opt for an animated aesthetic " to show the geography of the campus". Footage was mostly shot in Maitland's backyard and then animated by production company Minnow Mountain who was aided by pictures Maitland had shot around campus. Craig Staggs is an animator, illustrator, filmmaker and writer. His illustrations have been featured in publications such as The New York Times and the covers of Simon and Schuster’s Star Trek: Starfleet Academy book series. His iconic work on Richard Linklater’s cult classic A Scanner Darkly lead to a successful freelance animation career before founding Minnow Mountain with the goal of developing original feature films, television and web series. He is a Co-Producer/Director of Animation on Tower and the Creator of Earp. After earning a BFA in Photography from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Steph Swope began a diverse career in the visual arts. A veteran of the independent film industry, Steph rose from art department and photo/video research to producing award winning animation and video. She is a Co-Producer/Producer of Animation on Tower and Executive Producer of Earp. http://www.towerdocumentary.com/ http://igg.me/at/murderlake http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/96-minutes/Follow us on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon.
CJR's David Uberti, Nausicaa Renner, and Pete Vernon discuss a wild week in White House-media relations. Then, we turn to MisinfoCon, a weekend gathering of journalists and technologists trying to solve the fake news problem. Freelance writer Lyz Lenz calls in to chat about the Texas Monthly and its legendary writer, Pamela Colloff.
Pamela Colloff and Mimi Swartz are executive editors of Texas Monthly. Colloff: "That sense of loss, that sense of normal life turning on a dime is something that, in a very different way, I’ve experienced. And I carry that with me into some of the more difficult stories." Swartz: "Here’s this great [public interest] story that nobody’s ever told. Now how can I write it so the maximum number of people want to read it? I try to make the homework part as interesting and compelling as possible." Thanks to TinyLetter and PillPack for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @pamelacolloff Colloff on Longform [2:15] Longform Podcast #16: Pamela Colloff [10:00] "A Bend in the River" (Texas Monthly • Jul 2002) [10:00] "A Question of Mercy" (Texas Monthly • Mar 2014) [10:30] "The Innocent Man, Part One" (Texas Monthly • Nov 2012) [10:30] "The Innocent Man, Part Two" (Texas Monthly • Dec 2012) [14:45] "Innocence Found" (Texas Monthly • Jan 2011) Show notes: @mimiswartz Swartz on Longform [25:30] "Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives" (Texas Monthly • Aug 2012) [33:30] "The Ring and I" (Texas Monthly • Jan 2014) [35:15] "Sexual Misconduct in the Military--and Why Kirsten Gillibrand Is Pushing Reform to the Top of Her Agenda" (Vogue • Feb 2014) [35:45] "Failure is Not an Option" (Texas Monthly • Oct 2013) [41:00] Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron (Crown Business • Mar 2004)
Mike Sager, writer-at-large for Esquire and founder of The Sager Group, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @therealsager Sager on Longform thesagergroup.net Sager's latest collection: The Someone You're Not The Sager Group's first anthology: Next Wave: America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists (Featuring Justin Heckert, Pamela Colloff, Chris Jones and more) "The Devil and John Holmes" (Rolling Stone • May 1989) "The Man Who Never Was" (Esquire • May 2009) National Magazine Award-winning profile of Todd Marinovich. "Last Tango in Tahiti" (Washington Post • July 1987) Searching for Marlon Brando. "A Day at Gore Vidal's Place" (Esquire • May 2008)
Pamela Colloff, executive editor and staff writer at Texas Monthly, interviewed by Max Linsky. Show notes: @pamelacolloff Colloff on Longform "The Innocent Man" (Texas Monthly • Nov-Dec 2012) "Innocence Lost" (Texas Monthly • Oct 2010) "Innocence Found" (Texas Monthly • Jan 2011) "Lip Shtick" (Texas Monthly • Sep 2003) "Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch" (Texas Monthly • Nov 2002)