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Storyboard 2013: New year, new features

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 | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Amy Wallace, Ann Friedman, Annotation Tuesday!, Ben Ehrenreich, Ben Yagoda, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, Dan Barry, David Grann, Eli Sanders, Esquire, GQ, 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 | Comments (0)

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, Gizmodo, 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)

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, Byliner, Cathy Young, Dave Gilson, GQ, 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)

Michael Mooney on trauma detail, his reading partner, the internal critic and his “I ♥ (Vince Young)” notebook

July 6, 2012 – 8:43 am

We’ll be talking to Michael Mooney again soon about a small body of his recent long-form journalism, but today we give our attention to “When Lois Pearson Started Fighting Back,” our latest Notable Narrative. We chose the D magazine story, about how a 62-year-old Texas woman named Lois Pearson survived a horrifically violent kidnapping, for [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads | Also tagged D Magazine, Dallas Morning News, Eli Sanders, GQ, Karen K. Ho, Michael Mooney, National Magazine Award, Pam Colloff, Pulitzer Prize, Tim Rogers, Tom Junod | Comments (1)

Work we love: a multimedia look at secret slavery, a portrait of fantasy baseball’s founder and dueling Robert Caro profiles

May 4, 2012 – 8:57 am

Our bookmarks have been busy lately what with all the good stuff to read and watch and hear. Some of our recent favorites hail from CNN.com, Grantland, the New York Times magazine and Esquire. In case you missed them, here are four pieces worth your time: Slavery 360° For the CNN.com multimedia narrative “Slavery’s Last [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in what we're reading etc. | Also tagged Bess Kalb, Charles McGrath, Chris Jones, CNN.com, Edythe McNamee, Esquire, Gay Talese, John D. Sutter, Justin Ellis, Robert Caro, The 6th Floor, The New York Times Magazine, W.C. Heinz | Comments (1)

What we’re reading: baseball, life at Disney World, and strange summer stories

June 23, 2011 – 11:41 am

A man with advanced ALS heads out for a fishing trip with his wife. A reporter goes to Walt Disney World with his children and a reefer-addicted friend. A Korean-American sportswriter over at the intriguing new Grantland site reflects on his cultural confusion when Ichiro Suzuki came to play for the Seattle Mariners. (Should he be [...]

By Andrea Pitzer | Posted in words | Also tagged Adam Curtis, BBC, Deborah Blum, George Packer, Indianapolis Monthly, Jay Caspian Kang, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Lapham's Quarterly, Megan McCloskey, Paris Review, Stars and Stripes, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Tony Rehagen | Comments (0)