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Viewfinder: Video storytelling — yes, you can

November 16, 2012 – 2:32 am

Until about the past decade, making films or videos required thousands of dollars of equipment, years of experience and an outlet, be it a theater or a TV station. Now we have cheap and good cameras that most of us carry in our pockets, plus numerous ways to disseminate the content. As a result, video [...]

By Sean Patrick Farrell | Posted in video journalism | Also tagged CNN, David Clinch, Mark Scheffler, Melena Ryzik, Sean Patrick Farrell, Storyful, The Wall Street Journal, WorldStream | Comments (1)

Kevin Sack on kidney transplants, kickers, the myth of the daily/narrative disconnect and “The Little Mermaid”

April 27, 2012 – 8:39 am

For our latest Notable Narrative we chose Kevin Sack’s “60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked,” a New York Times story about an unprecedented chain of kidney transplants. We admired the story as a deft and moving example of explanatory narrative, and because Sack, a two-time Pulitzer winner, chose an unlikely protagonist, with deeply touching consequences. [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads | Also tagged ABC News, Adam Bryant, Anthony Shadid, BBC, Diane Sawyer, Jill Abramson, Kevin Sack, New England Journal of Medicine, Nicole Bengiveno, Pulitzer Prizes, Sean Patrick Farrell, The New York Times | Comments (0)

Narrative gold: Eli Sanders and his Pulitzer-winning crime saga

April 19, 2012 – 8:26 am

“The prosecutor wanted to know about window coverings. He asked: Which windows in the house on South Rose Street, the house where you woke up to him standing over you with a knife that night – which windows had curtains that blocked out the rest of the world and which did not?” So begins Eli Sanders’ story “The [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Amy Ellis Nutt, Anna Griffin, Barry Siegel, Ben Yagoda, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Corinne Reilly, Eli Sanders, Esquire, Gene Weingarten, George Polk Award, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, Jim Sheeler, John Branch, Lane DeGregory, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, National Book Award, Nieman Fellow, Pulitzer Prize, Raquel Rutledge, Rocky Mountain News, Rolling Stone, Ronnie Agnew, The American Scholar, The Clarion-Ledger, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Stranger, The Virginian-Pilot, Walt Harrington, Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism | Comments (1)

All the narrative edification you need: our 2012 conference roundup

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 | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Adam Hochschild, American Society of Journalists and Authors, 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 | Comments (1)

Amy Harmon on getting readers “to think about the limits of their own tolerance”

October 14, 2011 – 4:31 pm

Our latest Editors’ Roundtable looks at “Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World.” Amy Harmon’s story follows Justin Canha, an autistic man in his early 20s, and the many people trying to help him learn to live independently. A reporter for the New York Times, Harmon has won two Pulitzer Prizes: one in [...]

By Andrea Pitzer | Posted in editors' roundtable | Also tagged Jacqui Banaszynski, National Academies of Science, New York Times, Pulitzer Prize, Tom French | Comments (2)

October Editors’ Roundtable No. 1: The New York Times on autism and adulthood

October 14, 2011 – 4:31 pm

Our first October Rountable looks at “Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World,” by Amy Harmon. Harmon tells the story of Justin Canha, a 21-year-old illustrator hoping to live on his own but facing challenges both predictable and surprising in that quest. The story ran on September 18 on page 1 of the [...]

By Andrea Pitzer | Posted in editors' roundtable | Also tagged Chris Hunt, Jacqui Banaszynski, The New York Times, Tom Huang | Comments (3)

Paul Raeburn, Ira Glass, and just some of the ways a story can go wrong

February 24, 2010 – 6:15 pm

Yesterday, Paul Raeburn at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker took the stuffing out of a New York Times medical piece. The story, by Gardiner Harris, reveals a secret recording of a 2007 meeting between a cardiologist and executives at a pharmaceutical company. Raeburn dinged it for both structure and content, writing that “sometimes a poorly [...]

By Andrea Pitzer | Posted in audio narratives, words | Also tagged Ira Glass, Palu Raeburn, Randy Olson, Science Tracker, The New York Times, TheBenshi.com, Tom Hollihan, YouTube | Comments (0)