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
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Amy Wallace, Ann Friedman, Annotation Tuesday!, Ben Ehrenreich, Ben Yagoda, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, Dan Barry, David Grann, Eli Sanders, Esquire, GQ, Grantland, Jennifer B. McDonald, Joan Didion, 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
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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
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Posted in #longreads, narrative news
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Also tagged Ann Marie Lipinski, Buzz Bissinger, Constance Hale, David Grann, Gay Talese, Jacqui Banaszynski, Jeff Sharlet, 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
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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
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Posted in #longreads, audio narratives, narrative news, what we're reading etc.
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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, Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, 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.
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[The fourth installment in an ongoing series of posts by Julia Barton about audio narratives. –Ed.] Great audio, as I’ve previously written, transports us to an imaginative place somewhere between the story’s world and our own. If you’re driving down the road in Florida but hearing a story about Siberia, it feels as though you’re [...]
By Julia Barton
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Posted in audio narratives
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Also tagged Aisha Tyler, Benjamen Walker, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Dan Coffey, Firesign Theatre, Gary Anthony Williams, Harry Shearer, Ian Shoales, Joe Frank, Marc Maron, National Public Radio, Nina Totenberg, Orson Welles, Peter Bergman, Radio Free Oz
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[The third installment in an ongoing series of posts by Julia Barton about audio narratives. –Ed.] A ghostly crowd of voices parades across the public radio airwaves every day: politicians and hosts, foreign correspondents, callers, singers. Sometimes they catch our interest, but as soon as one voice is gone and replaced by the next, it’s usually [...]
February 3, 2012 – 3:16 pm
[The second installment in an ongoing series of posts by Julia Barton about audio narratives. –Ed.] The title of this series, “Audio danger,” is mostly tongue-in-cheek. But not in the case of Kelly McEvers. McEvers now works as one of NPR’s correspondents in the Middle East, and she’s opened the network’s first bureau in Beirut. [...]
January 4, 2012 – 2:51 pm
[As part of our mission to look at storytelling in every medium, Storyboard is pleased to introduce Julia Barton, who will bring us several posts in 2012 focused on developments in and examples from the world of audio narratives. –Ed.] Writers and video producers live in dread of the wandering eye. Audio producers live for [...]
By Julia Barton
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Posted in audio narratives
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Also tagged airmedia.org, Andy Mills, APM, Jad Abumrad, Julie Shapiro, Long Haul Productions, NPR, PRI, Radiolab, Rob Rosenthal, Robert Krulwich, Roman Mars, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Transom, WNYC
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