Earlier this year, at the first TED conference in India, Hans Rosling predicted the year and month that India and China will overtake the West and return Asia to world dominance. He began in classic storytelling mode with a personal anecdote.
“Once upon a time, at the age of 24” Rosling said, “I was a student at [...]
Tag Archives: MacGregor Campbell
Statistics as story: narrative journalism by the numbers?
December 15, 2009 – 4:07 pm
“Cutthroat Capitalism” strips down story to chase pirate treasure
November 5, 2009 – 2:09 pm
In WIRED’s recent take on Somali piracy, “Cutthroat Capitalism”, Scott Carney leads what might have been a meaty narrative straight into a piranha-infested stream. What he pulls out on the other side is a story picked clean of words, revealing foundational economic forces that drive modern day pirates, expressed as a series of well-dressed equations. [...]
