We have to start with the monkeys. The infinite number of monkeys that, given their own personal typewriters and an infinite amount of time, would produce the works of William Shakespeare. But even thought-experiments involving infinity have their limits.
The idea is not that some monkeys, or maybe even the entire infinity of them, would get [...]
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What’s the buzz? Monkeying with story in the hive mind
October 4, 2010 – 1:47 pm
Chad A. Stevens on choosing sides and choosing stories: two approaches to mountaintop removal mining
June 14, 2010 – 2:36 pm
This spring Leveling Appalachia won a Best of Photojournalism prize from the National Press Photographers Association in the category of documentary film for a website. The story, a look at mountaintop removal mining, ran on Yale Environment 360’s site in 2009, alongside opinion and reported pieces on the same topic.
The film was a side effort from [...]
Tanja Aitamurto on crowdfunding and the future of narrative journalism
January 15, 2010 – 10:04 am
Yesterday’s Storyboard post was on ”Finding Dolly Freed,” an innovative approach to narrative journalism. For that story, we shared comments on the project from Tanja Aitamurto, a researcher at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, who did a case study on Spot.Us and has a particular interest in crowdfunded journalism. She had additional interesting thoughts on the future of long-form reporting in the digital era, and [...]
Hello, Dolly! Radiohead journalism and the future of narrative
January 14, 2010 – 4:32 pm
When a journalist in love with a story gets turned down by magazine after magazine then sells a piece only to see it killed, what’s the next step? If you’re Paige Williams, you take a page from the guerrilla journalism handbook and publish it yourself.
Williams, whose “Finding Dolly Freed” debuted last week, installed a donation [...]
