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Prize stories, Part 2: A National Magazine Award for Pamela Colloff

May 3, 2013 – 9:18 am

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 | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged David Grann, GQ, Mimi Swartz, Mother Jones, Pamela Colloff, Pulitzer Prize, Texas Monthly, the National Magazine Award, The New Yorker, Wired | Comments (0)

The story of a moment

April 25, 2013 – 8:14 am

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 | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Ann Marie Lipinski, Borja Echevarría, Brent McDonald, David Abel, David Simon, Kevin Cullen, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Nieman Jou, Paula Molina, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Washington Post | Comments (0)

7 great reads: this year’s ASME finalists in feature/profile writing

April 4, 2013 – 8:20 am

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 | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged American Society of Magazine Editors, ASME, Brian Mockenhaupt, Charles Graeber, Dexter Filkins, GQ, Jay Kirk, Karen Russell, Mac McClelland, Mother Jones, National Magazine Awards, Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly, The New Yorker, Wired | Comments (0)

Politics & storytelling, a sampler: Thompson, McGinniss, Sullivan, Lepore, Bowden, Bellow

November 6, 2012 – 10:06 am

Why hasn’t anybody Hunter S. Thompsonized this election? Or have they, and we missed it? Esquire’s Charlie Pierce approacheth – In the interest of keeping you abreast of news that hasn’t happened yet, I would like to introduce you to what the intellectuals in the employ of the Glenn Beck Empire will be saying on [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads | Also tagged Charlie Pierce, Columbia Journalism Review, Esquire, GQ, Hunter S. Thompson, Jill Lepore, Joe McGinniss, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Roger Ailes, Rolling Stone, Saul Bellow, The Chicago Tribune, the New York Mirror, Vanity Fair | Comments (0)

What we’re reading: digital long-form enterprise, quest narratives, a goalie’s dream, recession survivors, the curated Ayn Rand

August 23, 2012 – 8:17 am

Five from the field: 1. Rachel McAthy’s recent roundup of eight long-form digital projects included sites you probably already know about, like The Atavist, Byliner and Longreads, but also Matter, which recently met its Kickstarter funding goal and plans to publish one in-depth science and technology narrative per week. Learn more via Matter’s Kickstarter page: Narratively, [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads | Also tagged Amy Benfer, Andrew Corsello, Cathy Young, Dave Gilson, GQ, Grantland, Jeff Tietz, John Hodgman, Jordan Conn, Kickstarter, LongForm, longreads, Matt Thompson, Matter, Mother Jones, Narratively, NPR, Rachel McAthy, Reason, Rolling Stone, The Atavist, The National Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Thomas Mallon, Whitaker Chambers | Comments (0)

Multimedia storytelling at The Atavist: One year in, how’s it going, Evan Ratliff?

May 3, 2012 – 7:35 am

It’s been a little over a year since The Atavist debuted as a groundbreaking digital platform for long-form multimedia storytelling. Narrative journalists had been bemoaning the shrinking storytelling acreage, so this app-based venue was met with substantial interest. “E-books are more than a publishing platform,” as New York magazine referred to the genre, “they’re a whole new literary form.” [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative speaker series | Also tagged Adam Tanner, Al Gore, Alissa Quart, Alysia Abbott, Anna Griffin, Brendan Koerner, Carlotta Gall, Cris Beam, David Dobbs, David Grann, David Skok, David Wolman, digital National Magazine Award, Dina Kraft, Evan Ratliff, Gay Talese, Harper's, Hiroshima, James Geary, Jefferson Rabb, Jonathan Blakley, Jonathan Franzen, Joshua Hammer, longform.org, longreads, Matthew Power, Michael Lewis, National Magazine Award, Newsweek, Nicholas Thompson, Outside, Paige Williams, Raquel Rutledge, The Atavist, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, the Village Voice, Tyler Bridges, Wired | Comments (0)

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