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Notable Narratives

From 2006 to 2010, the Nieman Narrative Digest featured outstanding examples of narrative journalism drawn from newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Editors for the site were Nell Lake, Constance Hale and Andrea Pitzer.

In June 2010, the Nieman Foundation folded key elements of the Digest into the Nieman Storyboard site, including the Notable Narratives. What follows is the full archive of those stories.

Going small: the fragile world of a single constituent


The Union general, Malcolm X and the tides of history

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Mark Boal profiles “The Kill Team”


Dissecting disaster: “nine precious minutes” on the Deepwater Horizon

The People V. Football: the case for the prosecution


Political footnote or comeback kid? Robert Sanchez goes for a ride with Tom Tancredo


Death and football: reconstructing the last days of Max Gilpin


“One in a Billion”: a narrative window into the future of medicine


Telling their story, twins turn horror into hope for a different life


Somewhere over the rainbow: the past and future of Niagara Falls


Art or abuse? A portrait of Larry Rivers


Losing in Vegas: Jay Caspian Kang’s “literary moment”


“California is a Place” draws viewers into dizzying, disturbing intimacy with the Golden State

After the Wall: the strange story of German reunification


GQ’s “An Army of One”: The war on terror finds its own Don Quixote