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 [...]
January 8, 2013 – 10:41 am
Storytelling in 2013 — how will it look? Sound? How will it make us feel? Who’s doing it well, and how did they do it, and what can the rest of us learn from that work? We’re looking forward to finding out. Storyboard spent 2012 expanding our content and trying out new ways to engage readers. [...]
By Paige Williams
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Also tagged Amy Wallace, Ann Friedman, Annotation Tuesday!, Ben Ehrenreich, Ben Yagoda, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, Dan Barry, Eli Sanders, Esquire, GQ, Grantland, Jennifer B. McDonald, Joan Didion, Julia Barton, Junot Diaz, just one question, Luke Dittrich, Mary Roach, Michael Kruse, National Magazine Award, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nora Ephron, Pam Colloff, Paul Harding, Peter Trachtenberg, Roy Blount Jr., Sean Patrick Farrell, Tampa Bay Times, Wesley Morris, Work the Problem
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December 28, 2012 – 12:00 am
We welcomed thousands of new visitors to Storyboard this year along with exciting new contributors and content. Thanks for your continued enthusiasm and support, and for helping to further the storytelling aspect of the Nieman Foundation‘s journalistic mission, which celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2013. To stay in closer touch, join us on Twitter at @niemanstory [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative news
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Also tagged Ann Marie Lipinski, Buzz Bissinger, Constance Hale, Gay Talese, Jacqui Banaszynski, Jeff Sharlet, Julia Barton, Madeleine Blais, Malcolm Gladwell, Maria Henson, Mark Bowden, Nora Ephron, Rebecca Skloot, Rob Boynton, Sports on Earth, Ta-Nehisii Coates, Tim Carmody, Tom Levenson, Tommy Tomlinson
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November 20, 2012 – 10:10 am
Four years ago, I began looking into the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was put to death by the state of Texas in 2004. Willingham had been convicted of murdering his three children in 1991 after they died in a house fire; prosecutors argued that Willingham, who had managed to escape, had actually set [...]
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 Adam Hochschild, Buzz Bissinger, Chuck Lane, 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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October 23, 2012 – 8:41 am
There is a good reason tales of true crime make for great magazine writing. Or good procedural TV shows and movies. It’s because the best stories of unsolved murders, missing persons, or outrageous heists have the ring of fiction. They almost have to in order to succeed. We’ve all seen (or, let’s face it, written) [...]
We may as well begin the way Gary Smith begins – with a question, and near the end. Why is it that when you finish reading “Lying in Wait,” Smith’s 2002 profile of coach George O’Leary, you feel the impact so strongly? And by feel I mean physically feel. It will be different for everyone, [...]
Keeping you up to date on all things Storyboard, we’d like to point out a few new features and opportunities you might have missed. *We’ve collected some of our most popular chats with narrative storytellers in a new #longreads section, where you can read Q-and-A’s with David Grann, Pam Colloff, Buzz Bissinger, Gay Talese, Jeanne Marie [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Ben Yagoda, Burkhard Bilger, Buzz Bissinger, Calvin Trillin, Gay Talese, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Lori Waselchuk, Pam Colloff, Pat Walters, Sean Patrick Farrell, The New York Times, Yvonne Latty
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From the moment David Grann’s “The Yankee Comandante” appeared in the New Yorker last week, readers have been talking about it, hailing the tale of political intrigue, passion and heartbreak as unforgettable, as a masterpiece. Grann, of course, is known for memorable long-form narratives such as “Trial by Fire” and “A Murder Foretold” and for [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Aran Shetterly, David Remnick, Ernest Hemingway, Gay Talese, Joan Didion, Michael Kelly, Michael Lewis, Michael Sallah, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Susan Lee, The Big Short, The Devil Problem, The New Yorker, The Toledo Blade
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It’s been a volatile few months for ethics in storytelling, what with the unprecedented “This American Life” retraction of monologist Mike Daisey’s Apple story, and with the unfurled furor over John D’Agata’s anti-accuracy screed in The Lifespan of a Fact. Of all the reactions to the Daisey fiasco, a couple stood out. Steve Myers and [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Craig Silverman, David Sedaris, Hampton Sides, Hellhound on His Trail, James Fallows, John D'Agata, Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Mike Daisey, NPR, Poynter, Roy Peter Clark, Santaland Diaries, Steve Myers, The Atlantic, The Lifespan of a Fact, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, This American Life
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