As if longtime Columbia J-school professor Michael Shapiro didn’t already have enough to do, with Big Round Table launching in September: Yesterday he put 17 of his students’ stories online in a pay-what-you want experiment. Project Wordsworth runs for the next week. The idea intrigues us* and we’re interested to see what will happen. As of [...]
by Paige Williams
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May 10, 2013
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tags: Anna Codrea-Rado, Anna Hiatt, BuzzFeed, Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia School of Journalism, David Blum, Eleonore Hamelin, Huffington Post, Jonah Peretti, Kamakshi Ayyar, Keith Collins, longform.org, longreads, Madeline K.B. Ross, Mary Ann Georgantopoulous, Michael Shapiro, Mike Hoyt, Rashmi Raman, The Atavist, The Big Round Table
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Everybody loved the Charles Ramsey interviews on freeing Amanda Berry, one of three young women abducted in Cleveland a decade ago and apparently held captive all this time. Then of course, people hated it. Or some did, anyway, raising questions about the meme of the “hilarious black neighbor.” Until details about the story had time to [...]
Storytelling prize season wound down last night with the presentation of the National Magazine Awards, the Pulitzers of the American magazine world. Texas Monthly’s Pamela Colloff took the “Ellie” for her two-part narrative series on a man wrongly imprisoned for 25 years in the violent death of his wife. “The Innocent Man” topped stories from Byliner, GQ, Mother [...]
by Paige Williams
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May 3, 2013
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tags: Byliner, David Grann, GQ, Mimi Swartz, Mother Jones, Pamela Colloff, Pulitzer Prize, Texas Monthly, the National Magazine Award, The New Yorker, Wired
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At some point, we’ll round up some of the better deadline storytelling from the past two weeks’ historic news out of Boston and Texas and Washington, D.C., and Mississippi and Cambridge and Watertown, but let’s end the week on a positive note, by remembering the great work of this year’s recently announced Pulitzer winner and finalists. In the features category, John Branch of the [...]
When the bombs went off, we were talking about Miranda. Specifically, we* were talking about David Simon’s treatment of the Miranda warning in his book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. The passage opens this way: You are a citizen of a free nation, having lived your adult life in a land of guaranteed [...]
by Paige Williams
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Apr 25, 2013
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tags: Ann Marie Lipinski, Borja Echevarría, Brent McDonald, Byliner, David Abel, David Simon, Kevin Cullen, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Nieman Jou, Paula Molina, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Washington Post
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Awards season continues with the announcement of the American Society of Magazine Editors’ finalists for the National Magazine Award. The organization this week honored 62 publications in 23 categories, with winners to be revealed in New York on May 2. The National Magazine Awards have long honored the best of narrative journalism, especially in the Feature [...]
by Paige Williams
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Apr 4, 2013
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also posted in #longreads
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tags: American Society of Magazine Editors, ASME, Brian Mockenhaupt, Byliner, Charles Graeber, Dexter Filkins, GQ, Jay Kirk, Karen Russell, Mac McClelland, Mother Jones, National Magazine Awards, Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly, The New Yorker, Wired
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In a recent edition of Storyboard’s Annotation Tuesday!, GQ’s Amy Wallace talked about the crossover between narrative and profile writing. “While I get that the two (genres) are distinct, I actually don’t think of them as being that different,” she told Storyboard. “Not to get too groovy, but it’s all about story and the drivers [...]
by Paige Williams
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Mar 22, 2013
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also posted in #longreads
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tags: 5280 Magazine, Amy Wallace, Ariel Sabar, Atlanta Magazine, GQ, Jason Fagone, Jason Sheeler, Jeannette Cooperman, Justin Heckert, Mimi Swartz, Pamela Colloff, Philadelphia magazine, Robert Sanchez, St. Louis magazine, Steve Volk, Texas Monthly, Tony Rehagen, Washingtonian Magazine
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In Part 1 of our roundup of finalists in the 2013 City and Regional Magazine Association and Missouri School of Journalism awards, we offered a taste of the stories nominated in the features category. The nominated writers covered an orchestra audition in Boston (Jennie Dorris, Boston magazine); bullying in Washington State (James Ross Gardner, Seattle [...]
by Paige Williams
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Mar 15, 2013
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also posted in #longreads
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tags: Annotation Tuesday!, Atlanta Magazine, Boston magazine, Bryan Smith, Chicago magazine, Cincinnati, City and Regional Magazine Association, CRMA, Evan West, Indianapolis Monthly, James Ross Gardner, Jennie Dorris, Jonah Ogles, Los Angeles magazine, Louise Farr, Pam Colloff, Rachel Manteuffel, Seattle Met, Steven Mikulan, Texas Monthly, Thomas Mullen, Washingtonian
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The City and Regional Magazine Association and the Missouri School of Journalism this week announced finalists for the 2013 National City and Regional Magazine Awards. Los Angeles logged the most nominations, followed by Texas Monthly, Atlanta magazine and Philadelphia magazine. Winners will be announced at the 37th annual CRMA conference, May 18-20, in Atlanta. Writers, [...]
by Paige Williams
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Mar 8, 2013
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also posted in #longreads
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tags: Atlanta Magazine, Boston magazine, Cincinnati magazine, City & Regional Magazine Association, CRMA, James Ross Gardner, Jennie Dorris, Jonah Ogles, Los Angeles magazine, Missouri School of Journalism, Outside magazine, Rachel Manteuffel, Seattle Met magazine, Texas Monthly, Thomas Mullen, Washingtonian Magazine
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When Richard Ben Cramer died Monday, at 62, of lung cancer, the outpouring of grief and gratitude began immediately. It’s hard to find a narrative journalist or a serious political writer that Cramer didn’t influence with What It Takes: The Way to the White House, his 1,047-page saga of the 1988 presidential race, or with [...]
by Paige Williams
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Jan 11, 2013
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tags: Gene Weingarten, James Fallows, John Avlon, Jonathan Martin, Mike Sager, Philadelphia Daily News, Politico, Pulitzer Prize, Richard Ben Cramer, Ryan Lizza, Salon, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, The New Yorker, Tom Junod, Will Bunch
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