June 26th, 2020 • Featured, Quill Blog
With fields and arenas empty, sports writers take on hard news

Normally, Ava Wallace can be found interviewing the Washington Wizards players for The Washington Post, but she recently covered a Black Lives Matter protest in Louisville when police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd.   Alex Putterman, the University of Connecticut football beat writer at the Hartford Courant, hasn’t written a sports story in months.