Dahlia Lithwick writes for Slate about Virginia's slow pace in exonerating convicts cleared by new analysis of DNA evidence, then talks about the writing process for Nieman Storyboard. On breaking free of Slate's usual 1,500-word limit and one-day turnaround: "So this was a big departure for me," she said. "This was a real lesson for me in how you can take two weeks to write a piece and have it come out really significantly better reported."
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