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Top 10 Storyboard posts of 2012

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 | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Ann Marie Lipinski, Buzz Bissinger, Constance Hale, David Grann, Gay Talese, Jacqui Banaszynski, 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 | Comments (0)

“What’s on your syllabus?”

September 20, 2012 – 8:35 am

Every narrative journalist can point to a story or a book, or two, that changed their lives, and that made them want to tell true stories. What story does it for you? Where was your love born? When we asked about influential writing via Twitter, answers came in a flurry. Wright Thompson said North Toward Home, [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads | Also tagged Aaron Latham, Adam Davidson, Alex Tizon, Alice Steinbach, Alison Smith, Andrew Pantazi, Anne Lamott, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara Myerhoff, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, Clive Thompson, Cornelius Ryan Award, Darcy Frey, David Foster Wallace, David Von Drehle, Deborah Baker, Des Moines Register, Diane Shipley, Dinty Moore, Edwidge Danticat, ESPN, Gay Talese, Gene Weingarten, George Orwell, Harold Ross, Harper's, Ian Frazier, Jacqui Banaszynski, James Baldwin, Jane Kramer, Janet Malcolm, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Jimmy Breslin, Jo Ann Beard, Joan Didion, Joe Sacco, John Carey, John Hersey, John McPhee, Jordan Conn, Joseph Mitchell, Julia Sommerfeld, Karen K. Ho, Katherine Boo, Kelley Benham, Ken Fuson, KillingtheBuddha.com, Larry L. King, Lê Thi Diem Thúy, Lillian Ross, Louisa May Alcott, Luke Dittrich, Madeleine Blais, Mara Grunbaum, Mark Bowden, Mark Kramer, Mary McCarthy, Melissa Faye Green, Michael Herr, Michael Lesy, Mother Jones, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Nick Paumgarten, Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nora Ephron, Norman Mailer, Overseas Press Club Award, Philip Weiss, Pulitzer Prize, Rachel Signer, Randy Shilts, Rebecca Skloot, Rob Boynton, Rolling Stone, Ron Rosenbaum, Rosemary Mahoney, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Sebastian Junger, Susan Orlean, Tampa Bay Times, Ted Conover, The Atlantic, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The New Yorker, The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, Tim O'Brien, Timothy B. Tyson, Tobias Wolff, Tom Junod, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Vanity Fair, Walt Whitman, Wendy Call, Will Hobson, William Browning, Willie Morris, Wired, Wright Thompson, Zoe Heller | Comments (5)

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, Ira Glass, Janet Malcolm, 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)

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