Welcome, new readers! Our audience has grown considerably lately, so we thought this might be a good time to recap Storyboard’s goods and services, and to invite you to follow us on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook. We’re a Nieman Foundation for Journalism publication, with two sister sites: Nieman Journalism Lab, edited by Joshua Benton, covers the future of news with daily online posts and [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Adam Penenberg, Alexis Madrigal, Amy Ellis Nutt, Amy Wallace, Ann Marie Lipinski, Atlanta Magazine, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, City & Regional Magazine Association, CRMA, David Grann, Deborah Blum, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Gay Talese, GQ, Isabel Wilkerson, Jacqui Banaszynski, James Geary, Jenna Wortham, Joshua Benton, Junot Diaz, Justin Ellis, Mark Bowden, Maud Newton, Michael Paterniti, Michael Pollan, National Magazine Award, New York Times Magazine, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Lab, Nieman Narrative, Nieman Narrative Journalism conference, Nieman Reports, Pamela Colloff, Pulitzer Prizes, Starlee Kine, the 6th Floor blog, Tom Junod, Wesley Morris
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November 13, 2012 – 9:26 am
We’re coming upon our 65th installment of “Why’s this so good?” – in which notable journalists dissect their favorite pieces of narrative journalism. Our contributors have included Adam Hochschild, Jennifer B. McDonald, Eli Sanders, Megan Garber, Wesley Morris, Ann Friedman, Chris Jones and Ben Yagoda, and covered Joan Didion, Calvin Trillin, Michael Paterniti, Nora Ephron, John [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, why's this so good?
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Also tagged Buzz Bissinger, Chuck Lane, David Grann, Deborah Blum, Gay Talese, Janet Cooke, John McPhee, Justin Ellis, Malcolm Gladwell, Maria Henson, Stephen Glass, The New Republic, the Pulitzer Prize, The Washington Post, Tim Carmody
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February 21, 2012 – 6:25 pm
It’s time for our annual almost-spring listing of 2012 writing events and conferences. From California to Texas and Boston, there are options to work on your writing or storytelling skills coast to coast. Whether you want to sharpen up your scene-setting, peek into the world of multimedia, or just network with others who are devoted [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged American Society of Journalists and Authors, Amy Harmon, Amy O'Leary, AWP, Biographers International Organization, Boston University, Chris Jones, Dagoberto Gilb, Dan Ferber, Evan Ratliff, Isabel Wilkerson, Jack El-Hai, Janine Latus, Jay Allison, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Jerald Walker, Kathleen Sharp, Luis Alberto Urrea, Luis Rodriguez, Maria Balinska, Marilynne Robinson, Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Rebecca Skloot, Richard Rhodes, Samuel Freedman, Seth Mnookin, The Muse and the Marketplace, Tom French, Tracy Daugherty, Wendy Call
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Adam Hochschild, a longtime supporter of the Nieman Foundation’s narrative program, published a new book last month, “To End All Wars.” A former editor of Mother Jones magazine, Hochschild lives in San Francisco and teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also written several narrative books [...]
April 11, 2011 – 10:49 am
[This last installment in a four-part series on writing historical narratives focuses on the importance of plot in nonfiction storytelling. The series is based on a lecture given by Adam Hochschild at Vanderbilt University in February 2011. Part 1 is a call to bridge the divide between academic writing and narratives intended for the general public. [...]
[This third installment in a four-part series on writing historical narratives focuses on the importance of characters. The series is based on a lecture given by Adam Hochschild at Vanderbilt University in February 2011. Prior installments have included a look at the value of setting and scenes in nonfiction storytelling and a call to bridge the divide [...]
[This second installment in a four-part series on writing historical narratives focuses on the importance of setting and scenes in nonfiction storytelling. The series is based on a lecture given by Adam Hochschild at Vanderbilt University in February 2011. To start at the beginning, read part 1, a call to bridge the divide between academic writing and [...]
March 24, 2011 – 10:27 pm
[This four-part series on storytelling and historical narratives is based on a talk given at Vanderbilt University in February 2011.] Half a century ago, the novelist and physicist C.P. Snow wrote about how these days we live in two cultures, where scientists and humanists seem to have lost the ability to talk to each other. [...]
By Adam Hochschild
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Posted in words
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Also tagged Aristotle, C.P. Snow, Francis Parkman, Henry Adams, Hugh Thomas, James Wood, Jared Diamond, Jill Lepore, Joseph Ellis, Masters and Johnson, Peter Novick, Sigmund Freud, Simon Schama, Stephen Jay Gould, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Pakenham, Vanderbilt University
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February 17, 2011 – 10:36 am
What is it that we really want from memoir? The kerfuffle this week over “A Widow’s Story,” a narrative from Joyce Carol Oates about the loss of her husband and their many years together brings this question front and center again. Oates was married to Raymond J. Smith for nearly five decades; in addition to [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in words
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Also tagged Aura Estrada, CBS, Francisco Goldman, Iris Murdoch, James Frey, Janet Maslin, Joan Didion, John Bayley, Joyce Carol Oates, Kelly Oliver, Margaret Seltzer, Mary Karr, Misha Defonseca, Nikki Stern, Roy Peter Clark, Salon.com, The Good Wife, The New York Times, The New Yorker
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We spoke this week with writer Ian Johnson about his new book, A Mosque in Munich. After winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his coverage of the Falun Gong movement for The Wall Street Journal, Johnson went on to do a series of articles about Islam in Europe. Returning to one of the stories from that [...]