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

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 ). --- Read shownotes, transcripts, and other member interviews: Follow the Guild on social media: Twitter: @OnWritingWGAE | @WGAEast Facebook: /WGAEast Instagram: @WGAEast

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Episode 123: Digital News Roundtable with the 2025 Writers Guild Award Nominees is an episode from OnWriting: A Podcast of the WGA East by Molly Beer.

This episode is 50:54 long.

This episode was published on Mar 19, 2025.

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