With Muammar Qaddafi’s efforts to suppress armed rebellion in Libya and the events unleashed by the massive earthquake in Japan on Friday, it’s a wonder that those of us not involved in the immediate coverage or relief can do anything but sit and watch these images in horror, hoping for the best possible outcomes in the face [...]
Tag Archives: Marc Fisher
What we’re watching: a town washed away, satellite images and covering conflict
March 14, 2011 – 1:53 pm
Narrative on deadline: stories on the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords
January 10, 2011 – 11:11 am
Doing narrative stories on the heels of breaking news generally precludes the kind of lyricism often associated with the best examples of the form. Yet it can be a good way to get a framework established on a confusing story – such as the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend.
Building a story [...]
Facebook as narrative: The Washington Post tries it out online and in print
December 10, 2010 – 12:02 pm
This morning’s Washington Post print edition carried a story built out of an annotated Facebook feed. The piece was posted to washingtonpost.com last night with the title “A Facebook story: A mother’s joy and a family’s sorrow.” While I’d seen the Post and other papers structure stories around Twitter and Tumblr feeds, and Slate’s mock [...]
The Washington Post Story Lab: letting readers in on how sausage gets made
November 30, 2009 – 1:18 pm
Is the future of story watching story unfold? Participating in story as it unfolds? The Washington Post’s Story Lab (which had a soft launch last week and official debut today) is about to find out. Marc Fisher, enterprise editor for local news, heads up a group of nine Post staffers assigned to the project (though [...]
Marc Fisher on The Washington Post’s new Story Lab
November 30, 2009 – 1:16 pm
I spoke this morning with Marc Fisher, enterprise editor for local news at The Washington Post. Fisher is heading up the organization’s new Story Lab, which launched this week. See our next post for the Storyboard take on the Lab.
Can you tell me a little about the genesis of the Story Lab?
We restructured our whole [...]
