We spoke this week with The New York Times’ David Barstow, who wrote and helped report our latest Notable Narrative, “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours.” The project, a fine-grained look at the crew’s last moments aboard the doomed oil rig, ran at the end of December, and we learned through Barstow that Summit Entertainment has recently [...]
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David Barstow on being fair, bearing witness and “doing something bigger with the story”
March 11, 2011 – 11:15 am
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in words
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Also tagged Anne Hull, David Finkel, David Rohde, Lowell Bergman, Pulitzer Prize, Stephanie Saul, Summit Entertainment, The New York Times, Tom French
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New York Times editor Bill Keller on narrative’s future: three “threats” to it he’s not buying
April 27, 2010 – 12:29 pm
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 [...]
By Beth Macy
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Bill Keller, C.J. Chivers, Dan Barry, Dexter Filkins, Gene Weingarten, Pro Publica, Robert Thompson, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, The New York Times, Tom Bissell
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