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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, Gizmodo, Grantland, Guernica, 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)

Kiera Feldman on investigative narrative, trauma reporting, true believers and tricky description

June 1, 2012 – 7:31 am

In “Grace in Broken Arrow,” our newest Notable Narrative, Brooklyn-based freelancer Kiera Feldman unfurls an investigative story about child sex abuse and institutional accountability at a private evangelical Christian school outside of Tulsa, Okla. The piece ran last week in This Land, a two-year-old web/print magazine in Tulsa that’s drawing acclaim for its long-form stories and [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads | Also tagged Alisa Solomon, Beyond the Pale, Brian Lehrer, Columbia School of Journalism, DART Center for Journalism & Trauma, Dave Cullen, David Sedaris, Esther Kaplan, GQ, Harper's, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Janet Malcolm, Jeff Sharlet, JoAnn Wypijewski, Josh Kline, Kathy Dobie, Kiera Feldman, Killing the Buddha, Kristen Lombardi, Legal Affairs, Michael Mason, n+1, New York magazine, NPR, PBS, Robert Kolker, The Center for Public Integrity, The Nation, The New York Times, the Tulsa World, Third Coast International Audio Festival, This American Life, This Land, Truman Capote, WNYC | Comments (0)

“Long-form is absolutely not dead”: insights from ProPublica, “Frontline,” The New Yorker and “This American Life”

March 17, 2011 – 1:35 pm

The New School and ProPublica co-hosted a panel on long-form journalism last night at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium in New York City. David Remnick of the The New Yorker, Ira Glass of “This American Life,” Raney Aronson-Rath of “Frontline,” and Steve Engelberg of ProPublica sat down with moderator Alison Stewart (of PBS’ “Need to Know”) [...]

By Andrea Pitzer | Posted in audio narratives, images, words | Also tagged Alison Stewart, CPB, David Remnick, Frontline, John McPhee, Lawrence Wright, Megan Garber, Need To Know, PBS, ProPublica, Raney Aronson-Rath, Steve Engelberg, The New Yorker, This American Life | Comments (3)

The future of long-form journalism: Frontline’s Aronson-Rath and ProPublica’s Engelberg on multimedia collaboration

March 16, 2011 – 3:16 pm

It’s always “The Future of Long-form Week” here at Nieman Storyboard, but we’re excited to note that this week, some key storytellers from different media are getting together in New York to talk about long-form, well, at length. Tonight at 7.pm., ProPublica and The New School are hosting “Long-form Storytelling in a Short-Attention-Span World.” Alison Stewart, co-anchor of the [...]

By Andrea Pitzer | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Alison Stewart, David Remnick, Frontline, Lenoard Lopate Show, Need To Know, PBS, ProPublica, Raney Aronson-Rath, Steve Engelberg, The New Yorker, This American Life | Comments (1)

NPR business reporter Adam Davidson: “many of the best stories come from wandering around a city and wondering what the hell is going on”

April 16, 2010 – 2:56 pm

With a lot of journalists pondering narrative in the digital era, we thought it would be interesting to highlight a March collaboration between NPR business reporter Adam Davidson and video producer Travis Fox. As part of a joint effort by Frontline and NPR, Fox and Davidson went to Haiti and ended up creating audio-only stories [...]

By Andrea Pitzer | Posted in audio narratives, images | Also tagged Adam Davidson, Alex Blumberg, Chana, Chana Joffe-Walt, David Kestenbaum, Frontline, NewsHour, NPR, PBS, Planet Money, This American Life, Travis Fox | Comments (8)

Paul Raeburn, Ira Glass, and just some of the ways a story can go wrong

February 24, 2010 – 6:15 pm

Yesterday, Paul Raeburn at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker took the stuffing out of a New York Times medical piece. The story, by Gardiner Harris, reveals a secret recording of a 2007 meeting between a cardiologist and executives at a pharmaceutical company. Raeburn dinged it for both structure and content, writing that “sometimes a poorly [...]

By Andrea Pitzer | Posted in audio narratives, words | Also tagged Amy Harmon, Palu Raeburn, Randy Olson, Science Tracker, The New York Times, TheBenshi.com, Tom Hollihan, YouTube | Comments (0)