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. [...]
Tag Archives: Nora Ephron
Storyboard 2013: New year, new features
January 8, 2013 – 10:41 am
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, Julia Barton, Junot Diaz, just one question, Luke Dittrich, Mary Roach, Michael Kruse, National Magazine Award, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Pam Colloff, Paul Harding, Peter Trachtenberg, Roy Blount Jr., Sean Patrick Farrell, Tampa Bay Times, Wesley Morris, Work the Problem
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Top 10 Storyboard posts of 2012
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, Julia Barton, Madeleine Blais, Malcolm Gladwell, Maria Henson, Mark Bowden, Rebecca Skloot, Rob Boynton, Sports on Earth, Ta-Nehisii Coates, Tim Carmody, Tom Levenson, Tommy Tomlinson
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“What’s on your syllabus?”
September 20, 2012 – 8:35 am
Every narrative journalist can point to a story or a book, or two, that changed their lives, and that made them want to tell true stories. What story does it for you? Where was your love born? When we asked about influential writing via Twitter, answers came in a flurry. Wright Thompson said North Toward Home, [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Aaron Latham, Adam Davidson, Alex Tizon, Alice Steinbach, Alison Smith, Andrew Pantazi, Anne Lamott, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara Myerhoff, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, Clive Thompson, Cornelius Ryan Award, Darcy Frey, David Foster Wallace, David Von Drehle, Deborah Baker, Des Moines Register, Diane Shipley, Dinty Moore, Edwidge Danticat, ESPN, Gay Talese, Gene Weingarten, George Orwell, Harold Ross, Harper's, Ian Frazier, Jacqui Banaszynski, James Baldwin, Jane Kramer, Janet Malcolm, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Jeff Sharlet, Jimmy Breslin, Jo Ann Beard, Joan Didion, Joe Sacco, John Carey, John Hersey, John McPhee, Jordan Conn, Joseph Mitchell, Julia Sommerfeld, Karen K. Ho, Katherine Boo, Kelley Benham, Ken Fuson, KillingtheBuddha.com, Larry L. King, Lê Thi Diem Thúy, Lillian Ross, Louisa May Alcott, Luke Dittrich, Madeleine Blais, Mara Grunbaum, Mark Bowden, Mark Kramer, Mary McCarthy, Melissa Faye Green, Michael Herr, Michael Lesy, Mother Jones, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Nick Paumgarten, Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Norman Mailer, Overseas Press Club Award, Philip Weiss, Pulitzer Prize, Rachel Signer, Randy Shilts, Rebecca Skloot, Rob Boynton, Rolling Stone, Ron Rosenbaum, Rosemary Mahoney, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Sebastian Junger, Susan Orlean, Tampa Bay Times, Ted Conover, The Atlantic, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The New Yorker, The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, Tim O'Brien, Timothy B. Tyson, Tobias Wolff, Tom Junod, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Vanity Fair, Walt Whitman, Wendy Call, Will Hobson, William Browning, Willie Morris, Wired, Wright Thompson, Zoe Heller
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“Why’s this so good?” No. 56: Nora Ephron and the thing about breasts
August 28, 2012 – 8:30 am
Nora Ephron was a writer of many gifts. She was fearless. She was blunt. She was dazzlingly perceptive. She was writing at the right time. Her connections were fascinating. She could turn coincidence and happenstance into substantial proof that something important was going on – cosmic journalism. She composed what are commonly called zingers – [...]
By Wesley Morris
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Posted in why's this so good?
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Also tagged Esquire, New York magazine, Sally Quinn
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Nora Ephron on writing: seven insights
June 29, 2012 – 8:05 am
Before she wrote Silkwood, before she fictionalized her divorce from Carl Bernstein in the novel Heartburn, before she felt bad about her neck or put Sally with Harry or gifted the world with “I’ll have what she’s having,” Nora Ephron was a newspaper reporter. For five years, just out of Wellesley, she wrote for the [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news, tips
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Also tagged Carl Bernstein, Charlie Rose, Crazy Salad, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, New York magazine, New York Post, Nieman Foundation, Nieman narrative conference, Telling True Stories
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