For Talia Richman of The Dallas Morning News, there’s no such thing as a slow news day. 

Richman, recently named the nation’s top education beat reporter at the EWA Awards, shares how she balances the daily grind of school board meetings with enterprise pieces and investigations.

Plus, hear the backstory on how her remarkable profile of a Black girl’s troubling journey through her middle school’s discipline system became a radio essay for “This American Life.”