During the last days of December, we’ve been tweeting down Storyboard’s top 10 posts for the year. In case you haven’t been following along, here they are, all in one place (in reverse order):
10. Internet phenom Maud Newton’s “Why’s this so good?”:
“Raymond Chandler sticks it to Hollywood.”
9. Chris Jones, Esquire writer at large, talks with Nieman [...]
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Nieman Storyboard’s top 10 posts for 2011
The Go-Gos and the future of narrative nonfiction (or why you won’t see any new posts here for a bit)
It’s that time of year, where we take a break for a few days from the world of nonfiction storytelling to hit the beach, eat funnel cakes and read really bad fiction. (No way are we going to let a little hurricane interfere with anything as important as a vacation.)
If you’re longing for Storyboard material [...]
Dorothy Parvaz released from detention in Iran
We’re thrilled to hear this morning that Iran has freed detained journalist (and 2009 Nieman fellow) Dorothy Parvaz. Alan Cowell and J. David Goodman reported in The New York Times that, without advance notice, Dorothy called her fiancé, Todd Barker, from customs as she arrived back in Doha, Qatar. A wonderful surprise for him, no [...]
2009 Nieman fellow Dorothy Parvaz detained: the scoop so far and what you can do
[UPDATE: Good news! Iran has allowed Dorothy to return to Qatar. For more information, read our post on Dorothy's release.]
At a Nieman Foundation gathering over the weekend in Cambridge, a decade’s worth of current and former fellows joined with foundation staff to celebrate the tenure of departing Nieman curator Bob Giles. While journalists from around [...]
Life in the cave: highlights from Boston University’s “The Rebirth of Storytelling” conference
What does it take to make a great story? Boston University’s “The Power of Narrative” conference, held on campus April 29-30, aimed to offer some insights. The event included the kind of writing techniques and “show don’t tell” advice you’d expect (and hope for) at such a gathering. But beyond hearing about the mechanics of narrative [...]
The future of long-form journalism: Frontline’s Aronson-Rath and ProPublica’s Engelberg on multimedia collaboration
It’s always “The Future of Long-form Week” here at Nieman Storyboard, but we’re excited to note that this week, some key storytellers from different media are getting together in New York to talk about long-form, well, at length.
Tonight at 7.pm., ProPublica and The New School are hosting “Long-form Storytelling in a Short-Attention-Span World.” Alison Stewart, co-anchor of the PBS [...]
Boston University announces 2011 narrative conference roster
More conference news for long-form addicts: Boston University has announced the roster for “The Power of Narrative” conference taking place on campus April 29 & 30 of this year.
The list of speakers includes some fabulous storytellers:
Susan Orlean, New Yorker contributor and author of “The Orchid Thief”;
Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times and co-author [...]
The Justice League of narrative? Even better: it’s the roster of our new Editors’ Roundtable
Earlier this week, we announced a new offering on Storyboard – an Editors’ Roundtable, in which a stellar group of editors will collectively analyze a piece of narrative journalism. We invited Storyboard readers to submit links to the best true story they had read recently. Submissions are open indefinitely, so please continue to forward material at [...]
Robert Caro, Stacy Schiff, Diane Ackerman and more: narrative conferences and workshops in 2011
Was one of your resolutions in 2011 to become a better storyteller? If so, here are a few conferences and workshops slated for the coming months that can probably teach you a thing or two. These sessions range from one-day conferences to week-long writing intensives, and none of them are free (they range from less [...]
