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What we’re watching: musical fracking, award-winning photojournalism, and documentaries from Cannes

May 18, 2011 – 3:26 pm

From a groovy explainer to a broken contortionist, here are some visual experiences worth a look.

“My Water’s on Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song),” by David Holmes, Andrew Bean, Niel Bekker, Adam Sakellarides and Lisa Rucker from @Studio2oNYU in collaboration with ProPublica. The most entertaining (and catchy!) explainer we’ve seen in a long time. It recalls the [...]

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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 [...]

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