After three weeks of ice, you’ve watched every “Law & Order” spinoff in syndication from inside your snow fort. The long weekend is over, and you’re looking out the window through a mountain of empty Cheez-It boxes and powdered doughnut wrappers. You say you’re searching for inspiration? Something to get you through the rest of winter?
Look [...]
Doing narrative stories on the heels of breaking news generally precludes the kind of lyricism often associated with the best examples of the form. Yet it can be a good way to get a framework established on a confusing story – such as the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend.
Building a story [...]
by Andrea Pitzer
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Jan 10, 2011
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tags: Adam Nagourney, Andrew Carvin, Gabrielle Giffords, Jaimee Rose, Marc Fisher, Mary Jo Pitzl, NPR, Storify, The New York Times, The Washington Post
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Digital innovation is providing new tools with intriguing possibilities for storytelling. At the 2010 Online News Association Conference last weekend, Webbmedia’s Amy Webb presented tech trends she thinks might find a place in the future of news. (Before she founded her own company, Webb covered emerging technology, media and cultural trends for Newsweek and the [...]
by Andrea Pitzer
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Nov 4, 2010
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tags: 000 Words, 10, Amy Webb, Flipboard, KnowEm, Lauren Rabaino, Newsweek, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Spokeo, Storify, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Webbmedia
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The new group of Nieman fellows has arrived in Cambridge and will be spending this academic year diving into Harvard courses and research opportunities. I’ve taken the time talk one-on-one with some of the new arrivals this week, including narrative writers Darcy Frey and Josh Prager, as well as NPR’s Gwen Thompkins, who will be [...]
[One in an occasional series of talks with people highlighting long-form journalism online. Prior posts in this series include a look at Gangrey.com and Twitter’s @longreads.]
From “a really little town” in Berkshire County, England, Richard Dunlop-Walters hopes to give you something worth checking out at a site called, well, “Give Me Something To Read.” The [...]
by Andrea Pitzer
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Jun 7, 2010
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also posted in words
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tags: Gangrey, Give Me Something To Read, Instapaper, longreads, Marco Arment, Richard Dunlop-Walters, The American Scholar, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tumblr, Washington Monthly
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Last month, I went to the International Journalism Festival in Italy for a panel on the future of story in the digital era. Since a potential benefit of the growing number of multimedia narratives is that visual stories often cross language barriers more easily, I was expecting to learn all about how Italian journalists present narrative journalism [...]
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April 27, 2010
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller thinks the death of narrative journalism has been greatly exaggerated—and he brought some examples to Boston University’s 2010 narrative conference Saturday to prove it:
A man standing in line at a store, scrolling through Dexter Filkins’ 10,000-word magazine cover story on Afghanistan, for instance—on his Blackberry.
The lede of Gene Weingarten’s Pulitzer-winning [...]
tags: Bill Keller, C.J. Chivers, Dan Barry, David Barstow, Dexter Filkins, Gene Weingarten, Pro Publica, Robert Thompson, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, The New York Times, Tom Bissell
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Congratulations to this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners, whose names were announced on Monday. In honor of the new recipients and finalists, we’d like to highlight a few of our past interviews and overviews with connections to nominated stories.
Gene Weingarten won the prize in feature writing for a Washington Post piece about the guilt and grief of parents who inadvertently killed [...]
Looking for thoughts on narrative from big names in a small setting? We spoke last week with Isabel Wilkerson, director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University’s College of Communication, about the upcoming conference “The Power of Narrative: Timeless Art in an Urgent Age.” Taking place at the University’s Photonics Center April 23 – 24, the event [...]
by Andrea Pitzer
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Mar 29, 2010
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tags: Adam Hochschild, Allegra Goodman, Bill Keller, David Himmelstein, Gay Talese, Ha Jin, Isabel Wilkerson, Larry Tye, The New York Times, The Power of Narrative
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How will digital opportunities change the way we tell stories? Earlier this month in New York City, a roundtable of journalists from major media outlets and community-oriented news organizations met to consider new narrative possibilities. Funded by Shell, the afternoon symposium was hosted by the International Center of Photography and co-sponsored by Frontline.
The discussion wasn’t [...]
by Andrea Pitzer
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Feb 26, 2010
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also posted in images, interactive narratives
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tags: acel Dretzin, Andres Cediel, Carbon Watch, Digital Nation, Frontline, Google, las Vegas Sun, Law and Disorder, Living Stories, Raney Aronson, Thirst in the Majave, Zach Wise
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