Unfortunately, ProPublica wrote its main articleon the project like afeature for some bygone newspaper, which meant most of the really, really good stuff wound up at the bottom.
In the session onarticle and feature writing, the lecture covered -- how to select a subject, how to write a theme sentence to determine the parameters of the subject, and how to collect and sort out the material.
The ads build upon an article discovery feature Disqus introduced over the summer, a box below the comments that provides links to related articles either on the site or elsewhere on the Web.