DiscoverOnWriting: A Podcast of the WGA EastEpisode 123: Digital News Roundtable with the 2025 Writers Guild Award Nominees
Episode 123: Digital News Roundtable with the 2025 Writers Guild Award Nominees

Episode 123: Digital News Roundtable with the 2025 Writers Guild Award Nominees

Update: 2025-03-19
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The five contenders for Digital News at the 2025 Writers Guild Awards sit down for a roundtable discussion of their nominated pieces, their writing processes, facing challenges and finding silver linings in the media industry, pre-publication nerves, and much more.

The Digital News nominees at the 2025 Writers Guild Awards were Henry Grabar for "Mise-en-Seine: A Paris Olympics Diary" (Slate), Akbar Shahid Ahmed for "What Is Hamas Thinking Now?" for (HuffPost), Molly Olmstead for "Sent by God" for (Slate), Jim Newell for "The Unraveling of Nancy Mace" (Slate), and Jaya Saxena for "The Food That Makes You Gay" (Eater).

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Episode 123: Digital News Roundtable with the 2025 Writers Guild Award Nominees

Episode 123: Digital News Roundtable with the 2025 Writers Guild Award Nominees

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