Lessons from the Field
Making Political Stories Come Alive
New York Times Magazine Writer Dan Kaufman
Introduction: Cayli Yanagida, Missouri School of Journalism graduate student and WWG student researcher
About the Event
Thursday, February 19, 2026
12 – 2 p.m.
Lee Hills Hall, 715 Elm Street, Columbia, MO 65211. Room 303
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- Bringing politics to life
- Humanizing complex issues
- Writing with voice and vision
Dan Kaufman is the author of “The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics” (W.W. Norton). He writes frequently about labor, Midwestern politics, deindustrialization, and economic inequality. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic. His New Yorker article “On the Line,” about the 2023 U.A.W. strike, won a Sidney Award for outstanding journalism from the Sidney Hillman Foundation.
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