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The best in narrative, 2012: Storyboard’s top picks in audio, magazines, newspapers and online

December 20, 2012 – 8:34 am

Welcome to Storyboard’s first annual year-end roundup of top storytelling: 34 of our favorite pieces in audio, magazines, newspapers and online, with three of the categories guest curated by Mark Armstrong (online), Julia Barton and Julie Shapiro (audio), and Ben Montgomery, Michael Kruse and Thomas Lake (newspapers). This was a strong year for storytelling, and it was hard to choose. You’ll find pieces that [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, audio narratives, narrative news, what we're reading etc. | Also tagged Adrian Chen, Al Letson, Anne Hull, Barry Bearak, BBC, Ben Austen, BuzzFeed, Christopher Goffard, Dan Barry, Deadspin, Eli Saslow, Gawker, Grantland, Guernica, Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, Julia Barton, Julie Shapiro, Katherine Goldstein, Kelley Benham French, Kelly McEvers, longreads, Lu Olkowski, Mark Armstrong, Mark Collette, Matt Kallman, Matter, McKay Coppins, Michael Kruse, Mike Albo, Mike Daisey, Narratively, NPR, Paige Williams, Pat Walters, Pejk Malinovski, Radiolab, Randa Jarrar, Rob Schmitz, Rob Trucks, Robert Krulwich, SB Nation, Slate, Splitsider, Sports Illustrated, Tampa Bay Times, The Awl, The Billfold, The Classical, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, The Hairpin, the Los Angeles Times, The New Inquiry, The New York Times, The Oregonian, The Rumpus, The Verge, The Washington Post, This American Life, Thomas Lake, Tom Hallman Jr. | Comments (3)

Hurricane Sandy: story forms

October 30, 2012 – 10:26 am

The Hurricane Sandy storylines are still unfolding, but one thing became clear on Monday as winds and water overtook New York City and New Jersey in historic proportions: Digital media deepened the transformation of the disaster narrative. Here’s some of what’s out there today in various storytelling forms: The New York Times’ Tumblr-like live update stream was the cleanest [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Alexis Madrigal, Hurricane Sandy, Ian Shapira, Instagram, Justin Brannan, Lydia Calas, Marissa Lang, Mary Norris, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Tampa Bay Times, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TIME magazine, Tumblr | Comments (3)

“Why’s this so good?” No. 76: William Nack and “Pure Heart”
Don Van Natta Jr. on loving a horse
Liner notes: Storytelling with Gordon Lightfoot (yep, that’s right)
Tommy Tomlinson, under the hood
“Why’s this so good?” No. 75: Dan P. Lee and the father who lost everything
Joe Keohane on withholding information