February 8, 2013 – 9:15 am
The news business is rarely funny. Much of what we do every day is report on devastating acts of nature, the plight of those without voices – the problems of the world. For most of those stories it’s best to rely on the Joe Friday approach: just the facts, which almost always speak louder than any adjective [...]
By Sean Patrick Farrell
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Posted in video journalism
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Also tagged Adam Green, Carrie Ching, Charles Darwin, Emily S. Rueb, Erik Olsen, Jad Abumrad, Kassie Bracken, Matt Flegenheimer, Morgan Spurlock, Natalia V. Osipova, NOVA Science Now, Radiolab, Ray Magliozzi, Robert Krulwich, Sean Patrick Farrell, the Center for Investigative Reporting, Tom Magliozzi, Zena Barakat
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December 20, 2012 – 8:34 am
Welcome to Storyboard’s first annual year-end roundup of top storytelling: 34 of our favorite pieces in audio, magazines, newspapers and online, with three of the categories guest curated by Mark Armstrong (online), Julia Barton and Julie Shapiro (audio), and Ben Montgomery, Michael Kruse and Thomas Lake (newspapers). This was a strong year for storytelling, and it was hard to choose. You’ll find pieces that [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, audio narratives, narrative news, what we're reading etc.
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Also tagged Adrian Chen, Al Letson, Anne Hull, Barry Bearak, BBC, Ben Austen, BuzzFeed, Christopher Goffard, Dan Barry, Deadspin, Eli Saslow, Gawker, Gizmodo, Grantland, Guernica, Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, Julia Barton, Julie Shapiro, Katherine Goldstein, Kelley Benham French, Kelly McEvers, longreads, Lu Olkowski, Mark Armstrong, Mark Collette, Matt Kallman, Matter, McKay Coppins, Michael Kruse, Mike Albo, Mike Daisey, Narratively, Paige Williams, Pat Walters, Pejk Malinovski, Radiolab, Randa Jarrar, Rob Schmitz, Rob Trucks, Robert Krulwich, SB Nation, Slate, Splitsider, Sports Illustrated, Tampa Bay Times, The Awl, The Billfold, The Classical, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, The Hairpin, the Los Angeles Times, The New Inquiry, The New York Times, The Oregonian, The Rumpus, The Verge, The Washington Post, This American Life, Thomas Lake, Tom Hallman Jr.
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September 7, 2012 – 11:14 am
The first week of fall term ends today at Harvard, and the Nieman Foundation’s newest class of fellows is settling in. The Nieman fellowship, which next year will celebrate its 75th anniversary, brings together 12 U.S. and 12 international journalists for one year of study across the university. Fellows pursue the topics of their choice, [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Alexandra Garcia, Ann Marie Lipinski, Atsuko Chiba, Barry Bingham Jr., Beauregard Tromp, Best Food Writing, Betsy O'Donovan, Blair Kamin, blogosin.org, Borja Echevarría de la Gándara, Brett Anderson, Carroll Binder, Chong-ae Lee, Chris Arnold, Cooperativa, David Abel, Der Spiegel, Don van Natta, Donald W. Reynolds, e-news Africa, Edward R. Murrow, El País, Emphas.is, ESPN, Finbarr O'Reilly, Food & Wine, Global Entrepreneur magazine, Gourmet, Homicide Watch, Huy Duc, Independent Newspapers, James Beard Award, Jane Spencer, Jane's Defence Weekly, Jeneen Interlandi, Jennifer B. McDonald, Jin Deng, Karim Ben Khelifa, Katrin Bennhold, Laura Norton Amico, Laura Wides-Munoz, Le Monde, Liberation.fr, Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, Ludovic Blecher, Mary Beth Sheridan, Medford Mail-Tribune, Newsweek, Nieman Fellows, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation, Paula Molina, Reuters, Robert Waldo Ruhl, Ruth Cowan Nash, Salon, San Truong, Scientific American, Seoul Broadcasting System, Souad Mekhennet, Southern Weekly, Stern, The Associated Press, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, the Committee to Protect Journalists, The Daily Beast, the Durham Herald-Sun, The Economic Observer, the International Herald Tribune, the Jerusalem Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Oxford American, the Pulitzer Prize, the Saigon Economic Times, The Times-Picayune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, Tuoi Tre, Vanity Fair, Walter Lippmann, William Montalbano, Yaakov Katz, ZDF
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August 23, 2012 – 8:17 am
Five from the field: 1. Rachel McAthy’s recent roundup of eight long-form digital projects included sites you probably already know about, like The Atavist, Byliner and Longreads, but also Matter, which recently met its Kickstarter funding goal and plans to publish one in-depth science and technology narrative per week. Learn more via Matter’s Kickstarter page: Narratively, [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Amy Benfer, Andrew Corsello, Byliner, Cathy Young, Dave Gilson, GQ, Grantland, Jeff Tietz, John Hodgman, Jordan Conn, Kickstarter, LongForm, longreads, Matt Thompson, Matter, Mother Jones, Narratively, Rachel McAthy, Reason, Rolling Stone, The Atavist, The National Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Thomas Mallon, Whitaker Chambers
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Phyllis Fletcher opens this wonderful piece of rescued history and solved mystery with a simple declaration: “Ina Ray Hutton was a stone cold fox.” The correct response to this kind of shared confidence – relayed by Fletcher in a rich voice streaked with a lusty glee one doesn’t often hear on public radio – is, of [...]
At last month’s Investigative Reporters & Editors conference, in Boston, hundreds of reporters attended dozens of sessions on everything from analyzing unstructured data to working with the coolest web tools and building a digital newsroom. The conference, which started in the 1970s, after a Phoenix reporter died in a car bomb while covering the mob, is usually [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in tips
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Also tagged Adam Goldman, Caitlin Ginley, Carol Marbin Miller, CBC, Charles Lewis, Chicago Tribune, DART Center for Journalism & Trauma, Doug Haddix, Elizabeth Ritvo, ESPN, Gary Marx, Harvey Cashore, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Jeff Neff, Jeff Pyle, Josh Bernstein, Ken Armstrong, Kiera Feldman, Kimberly Kindy, Margot Williams, Miami Herald, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Stan Alcorn, Steve Fainaru, Susan Greene, The Associated Press, the Center for Pub, The Daily, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, This Land Press, Walt Bogdanich
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Great story ideas come by luck but also with the hard work of searching, pre-reporting and thinking. From our archives, here are a few timeless pro tips for idea-mining. Follow the links to longer pieces on story craft. “Topic selection for a writer is crucial and not crucial at all. The not-crucial part is that [...]
In “Grace in Broken Arrow,” our newest Notable Narrative, Brooklyn-based freelancer Kiera Feldman unfurls an investigative story about child sex abuse and institutional accountability at a private evangelical Christian school outside of Tulsa, Okla. The piece ran last week in This Land, a two-year-old web/print magazine in Tulsa that’s drawing acclaim for its long-form stories and [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Alisa Solomon, Beyond the Pale, Brian Lehrer, Columbia School of Journalism, DART Center for Journalism & Trauma, Dave Cullen, David Sedaris, Esther Kaplan, GQ, Harper's, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Ira Glass, Janet Malcolm, Jeff Sharlet, JoAnn Wypijewski, Josh Kline, Kathy Dobie, Kiera Feldman, Killing the Buddha, Kristen Lombardi, Legal Affairs, Michael Mason, n+1, New York magazine, PBS, Robert Kolker, The Center for Public Integrity, The Nation, The New York Times, the Tulsa World, Third Coast International Audio Festival, This American Life, This Land, Truman Capote, WNYC
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Boxing stories leave me cold. Like many sports stories, they seem to assume an audience of fans who will be thrilled − rather than sickened − by a narrative built on grueling workouts, bloodied lips and head injuries. So I downloaded “Teen Contender,” about a 16-year-old girl trying out for the USA’s first Olympic boxing team, with some reluctance. I [...]
By Julia Barton
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Posted in audio narratives, why's this so good?
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Also tagged All Things Considered, Ann Hepperman, Car Talk, Joe Richman, Kara Oehler, Kitchen Sisters, Long Haul Productions, Love and Radio, Public Radio International, Radio Diaries, Samara Freemark, Sue Johnson, Teenage Diaries, The World, Weekend Edition Saturday, womenbox.org
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It’s been a volatile few months for ethics in storytelling, what with the unprecedented “This American Life” retraction of monologist Mike Daisey’s Apple story, and with the unfurled furor over John D’Agata’s anti-accuracy screed in The Lifespan of a Fact. Of all the reactions to the Daisey fiasco, a couple stood out. Steve Myers and [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Craig Silverman, David Grann, David Sedaris, Hampton Sides, Hellhound on His Trail, James Fallows, John D'Agata, Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Mike Daisey, Poynter, Roy Peter Clark, Santaland Diaries, Steve Myers, The Atlantic, The Lifespan of a Fact, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, This American Life
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