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WBUR + The Atavist + Whitey Bulger: using Creatavist to manage a major tale

June 5, 2013 – 1:13 pm

If you haven’t already seen Justin Ellis’s Nieman Lab piece on WBUR’s plans for the Whitey Bulger trial, have a look at today’s news: The Boston NPR station is partnering with The Atavist to provide immersive storytelling via Creatavist, The Atavist’s new platform. We’ve got a narrative-centric conversation with Atavist co-founder Evan Ratliff coming next week as the [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in interactive narratives, narrative news | Also tagged Creatavist, David Boeri, Evan Ratliff, Lisa Tobin, Nieman Lab, Nieman Narrative, NPR, The Atavist, WBUR | Comments (0)

Well hello there.

June 5, 2013 – 10:02 am

Welcome, new readers! Our audience has grown considerably lately, so we thought this might be a good time to recap Storyboard’s goods and services, and to invite you to follow us on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook. We’re a Nieman Foundation for Journalism publication, with two sister sites: Nieman Journalism Lab, edited by Joshua Benton, covers the future of news with daily online posts and [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Adam Hochschild, Adam Penenberg, Alexis Madrigal, Amy Ellis Nutt, Amy Wallace, Ann Marie Lipinski, Atlanta Magazine, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, City & Regional Magazine Association, CRMA, David Grann, Deborah Blum, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Gay Talese, GQ, Isabel Wilkerson, Jacqui Banaszynski, James Geary, Jenna Wortham, Joshua Benton, Junot Diaz, Mark Bowden, Maud Newton, Michael Paterniti, Michael Pollan, National Magazine Award, New York Times Magazine, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Lab, Nieman Narrative, Nieman Narrative Journalism conference, Nieman Reports, Pamela Colloff, Pulitzer Prizes, Starlee Kine, the 6th Floor blog, Tom Junod, Wesley Morris | Comments (0)

Why Charles Ramsey’s interview is great (and it’s okay* to think so)

May 9, 2013 – 9:05 am

Everybody loved the Charles Ramsey interviews on freeing Amanda Berry, one of three young women abducted in Cleveland a decade ago and apparently held captive all this time. Then of course, people hated it. Or some did, anyway, raising questions about the meme of the “hilarious black neighbor.” Until details about the story had time to [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Anderson Cooper, Callie Crossley, Greg Moore, Neely Tucker, Nieman Journalism Lab, The Denver Post, The Washington Post, WGBH | Comments (2)

“Why’s this so good?” by the numbers: Readers’ choice

November 13, 2012 – 9:26 am

We’re coming upon our 65th installment of “Why’s this so good?” – in which notable journalists dissect their favorite pieces of narrative journalism. Our contributors have included Adam Hochschild, Jennifer B. McDonald, Eli Sanders, Megan Garber, Wesley Morris, Ann Friedman, Chris Jones and Ben Yagoda, and covered Joan Didion, Calvin Trillin, Michael Paterniti, Nora Ephron, John [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, why's this so good? | Also tagged Adam Hochschild, Buzz Bissinger, Chuck Lane, David Grann, Deborah Blum, Gay Talese, Janet Cooke, John McPhee, Malcolm Gladwell, Maria Henson, Stephen Glass, The New Republic, the Pulitzer Prize, The Washington Post, Tim Carmody | Comments (0)

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, Grantland, John D. Sutter, Robert Caro, The 6th Floor, The New York Times Magazine, W.C. Heinz | Comments (1)

“Why’s this so good?” No. 10: Ralph Wiley tackles Jim Brown

September 6, 2011 – 1:22 pm

In “Nobody Else is Jim Brown,” sportswriter Ralph Wiley constructs a profile of perhaps the greatest football player in NFL history, a man so legendary that the word legend actually applies. Written for ESPN’s Page 2, the piece shows Wiley at his best. It’s a day in the life writ large, more like a Life in [...]

By Justin Ellis | Posted in why's this so good? | Also tagged Alexis Madrigal, ESPN, longreads, Ralph Wiley, Sports Illustrated, why's this so good? | Comments (2)

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