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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Results

Congrats, one and all. From The Mayborn:

DENTON (UNT), Texas — For the second year in a row, an article in The Washington Post by reporter Eli Saslow received the first place award in the Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest sponsored by the University of North Texas' Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.

Saslow's "Into the Lonely Quiet," published in June 2013, followed the family of a 7-year-old victim of the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, six months after the shooting. In 2013, Saslow won the inaugural Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest for "Life of a salesman: Selling success, when the American dream is…

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