Archive: Dec 2009

The Wichita Eagle uses narrative to connect to local, larger audience

The Wichita Eagle uses narrative to connect to local, larger audience

This weekend, The Wichita Eagle started an interesting storytelling experiment. Well, actually the experiment started a few weeks ago, when they posted a trailer for an upcoming narrative project on…
December 8, 2009
Andrea Pitzer
CBC Dispatches (Part 3): writing for radio

CBC Dispatches (Part 3): writing for radio

[This is Part 3 in our series stealing the best tips from the audio storytelling handbook of the CBC's Dispatches radio program. Parts 1 and 2 ran earlier this week.]We at Dispatches have seen thousands…
December 4, 2009
Alan Guettel

Lost in the Waves

What could be more dramatic than the story of a father and son swept nine miles out to sea, floating overnight together and then alone, uncertain of survival? In the…
December 4, 2009
Andrea Pitzer
Jared Diamond, The New Yorker and the awkwardness of anecdotes

Jared Diamond, The New Yorker and the awkwardness of anecdotes

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Chimamanda Adichie’s TED talk, in which she described how stereotypes develop when one community has only a single narrative about another. The post…
December 3, 2009
Andrea Pitzer

CBC Dispatches (Part 2): composing with sound

[This is Part 2 in our series stealing the best tips from the audio storytelling handbook of the CBC's Dispatches radio program. Part 1 ran yesterday.]The following are things you should start to figure out…
December 2, 2009
Alan Guettel
CBC Dispatches: Sounding out your story (Part 1)

CBC Dispatches: Sounding out your story (Part 1)

Dispatches is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio News weekly show of documentaries, essays, interviews and reports from around the world. Most are by traveling freelancers. Many are from CBC reporters…
December 1, 2009
Alan Guettel