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Pedro Monteiro |
September 8, 2011
The way we tell stories in print has been mostly the same for some time now. Space constraints and graphic layout have made the narrative flow a broken one. With the advent of digital devices and rich new ways of shaping content, the pressure is on to rethink how we produce and present our stories. [...]
also posted in audio narratives, interactive narratives, words
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tags: Barry Sussman, Businessweek, Catalogtree, France24, Joana Maciel, Moonbot Studios, Pedro Monteiro, The Atavist, Vasco Ferreira, Visão, VPRO
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We recently talked by Skype with David Dobbs about the mystery that began with his mother’s dying wish. Dobbs’ years of efforts to solve that mystery eventually became “My Mother’s Lover,” which was published last month byThe Atavist.
Dobbs has written at many lengths in several formats: He’s completed three books on science and environmental [...]
Our latest Editors’ Roundtable looks at Barry Bearak’s story “Watching the Murder of an Innocent Man,” from the New York Times. Bearak won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2001 coverage of the war in Afghanistan, and he has just finished a three-year stint in the Times’ Johannesburg bureau. In this email interview about his story, Bearak discusses [...]
In our latest Notable Narrative, “Did My Brother Invent E-Mail with Tom Van Vleck?,” Errol Morris rejects many of the standard rules of narrative writing.
Best known for his films “The Fog of War” and “The Thin Blue Line,” Morris has more recently been building an eccentric, hybrid form of writing in his work for The [...]
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Rob Nixon |
June 13, 2011
How can environmental writers craft emotionally involving stories from disasters that are slow-moving and attritional, rather than explosive and spectacular? This is a particularly pressing question for our age, as the news cycle spins ever faster, as the media venerates spectacle, and as public policy is increasingly shaped around what are perceived as immediate needs.
Think of [...]
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tags: Cory Doctorow, Harvard University Press, Jennifer Redfearn, Josh Fox, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Linda Stone, Rachel Carson, Rob Nixon, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, University of Wisconsin, Wangari Maathai
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The next Editors’ Roundtable, which will run on Monday, looks at a story on the tornado that hit Rainsville, Ala., earlier this month. Unfortunately, tragedy has struck again, and journalists have had to write additional disaster stories about the devastation of Joplin, Mo.
Next week we’ll provide an in-depth look at just the Rainsville piece, but [...]
by Andrea Pitzer
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May 31, 2011
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tags: A.G. Sulzberger, Brian Stelter, Dan Barry, David Von Drehle, Eric Adler, Isaac Duncan, Michael Overall, Richard Oppel, Rick Montgomery, Scott Canon, The Kansas City Star, The New York Times, Time, Tulsa World, YouTube
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From a groovy explainer to a broken contortionist, here are some visual experiences worth a look.
“My Water’s on Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song),” by David Holmes, Andrew Bean, Niel Bekker, Adam Sakellarides and Lisa Rucker from @Studio2oNYU in collaboration with ProPublica. The most entertaining (and catchy!) explainer we’ve seen in a long time. It recalls the [...]
by Andrea Pitzer
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May 18, 2011
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tags: Adam Sakellarides, Andrew Bean, Ashley Gilbertson, Brendan Lynch, David Holmes, Dexter Filkins, Espen Rasmussen, Everynone, Finn Ryan, Lisa Rucker, MediaStorm, National Magazine Awards, Niel Bekker, ProPublica, Studio 20 NYU, Terje Bringedal, The Big Picture, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, Torsten Kjellstrand
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Yesterday afternoon Columbia University announced this year’s Pulitzer Prizes in New York. So many journalists and writers were waiting online for the magic moment that the befuddled Pulitzer site was intermittently unresponsive after the list of winners posted.
There was, however, one problem with the list: It had no links. But we at Storyboard have solved [...]
by Andrea Pitzer
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Apr 19, 2011
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tags: Amy Ellis Nutt, Barbara Davidson, Carol Guzy, Colin Harrison, Eric Foner, Kathleen Gallagher, Los Angeles Times, Mark Johnson, Michael M. Phillips, Nikki Khan, Ricky Carioti, Ron Chernow, Sam Gwynne, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Post and Courier, The Star-Ledger, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Tony Bartelme
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The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences recently announced their honorees and nominees for the Webby Awards – kudos for achievement in websites, online film and video, mobile and apps, and interactive advertising. We highlighted a few honorees last week, but today’s focus is on the nominees – those projects still in the running for awards [...]
by Andrea Pitzer
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Apr 18, 2011
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tags: Arianna Huffington, Biz Stone, Briony Campbell, Clifford Levy, Ellen Barry, Evan Abramson, Getty Images, Human Rights Watch, Lynsey Addario, Marie-Claude Dupont, Martha Stewart, National Film Board of Canada, Old Spice guy, Olivier Lambert, Stephen Ferry, The Goggles, The Guardian, The New York Times, Thomas Salva, Twitter, Webby Awards, Yale Environment 360
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For our latest roundup of visual storytelling, we’ve selected some entries from the 15th Annual Webby Awards Official Honoree Selections announced yesterday. The following stories made the first cut but did not cross the bar to become nominees. We thought, however, that among those projects left behind, there were some really engaging pieces we wanted to [...]
by Andrea Pitzer
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Apr 14, 2011
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tags: Andy Capper, Brian Chang, Erin Anderssen, Gillian Laub, Leo Leigh, MediaStorm, National Film Board of Canada, Peter Power, Shaul Schwarz, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Time, Vice Media, Webby Awards
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