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, NPR, 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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November 30, 2012 – 9:43 am
In Part 2 of our annotation of Amy Ellis Nutt‘s Pulitzer-winning “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” Nutt, of the Newark Star-Ledger, explains how the investigative track of her five-chapter narrative unfolded. Yesterday, in Part 1, she walked us through the story conception and first two sections of the series, which chronicled the sinking of an [...]
It’s been a little over a year since The Atavist debuted as a groundbreaking digital platform for long-form multimedia storytelling. Narrative journalists had been bemoaning the shrinking storytelling acreage, so this app-based venue was met with substantial interest. “E-books are more than a publishing platform,” as New York magazine referred to the genre, “they’re a whole new literary form.” [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative speaker series
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Also tagged Adam Tanner, Al Gore, Alissa Quart, Alysia Abbott, Anna Griffin, Brendan Koerner, Byliner, Carlotta Gall, Cris Beam, David Dobbs, David Grann, David Skok, David Wolman, digital National Magazine Award, Dina Kraft, Evan Ratliff, Gay Talese, Harper's, Hiroshima, James Geary, Jefferson Rabb, Jonathan Blakley, Jonathan Franzen, Joshua Hammer, longform.org, longreads, Matthew Power, Michael Lewis, National Magazine Award, Newsweek, Nicholas Thompson, Outside, Raquel Rutledge, The Atavist, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, the Village Voice, Tyler Bridges, Wired
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You might notice editors switching seats in the days ahead. In the interest of keeping readers in the loop, we want to let you know that Storyboard editor Andrea Pitzer is working on a narrative nonfiction project about Vladimir Nabokov and will be taking a few months to concentrate solely on her book. In the [...]
December 30, 2011 – 1:11 pm
During the last days of December, we’ve been tweeting down Storyboard’s top 10 posts for the year. In case you haven’t been following along, here they are, all in one place (in reverse order): 10. Internet phenom Maud Newton’s “Why’s this so good?”: “Raymond Chandler sticks it to Hollywood.” 9. Chris Jones, Esquire writer at large, [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Alexis Madrigal, Andrea Pitzer, Bloomsbury Press, Carl Zimmer, Chris Jones, David Dobbs, David Foster Wallace, Gay Talese, Gene Weingarten, John McPhee, Maud Newton, Megan Garber, Michael Lewis, Pedro Monteiro, Peter Ginna, Raymond Chandler, Truman Capote
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December 2, 2011 – 2:08 pm
Continuing a Nieman Foundation narrative writing speaker series set up by Paige Williams, journalism legend Gay Talese appeared on campus two weeks ago in conversation with Esquire’s Chris Jones. The Harvard Writers at Work lecture series co-sponsored the standing-room-only event, where Talese and Jones were introduced by current Nieman fellow Adam Tanner of Reuters. What follows is [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative speaker series
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Also tagged Adam Tanner, Chris Jones, David Halberstam, David Remnick, Esquire, Gay Talese, Harper's, Harvard Review, Harvard Writers at Work, Nan Talese, Nancy Franklin, National Magazine Awards, Reuters, Roger Ebert, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, The New Yorker, William Styron
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December 1, 2011 – 12:11 pm
Esquire writer at large Chris Jones came to the Nieman Foundation two weeks ago as part of the Narrative Writing speakers series I started at the foundation last year, and spent a couple of hours talking about craft. Jones began his career as a sportswriter for the National Post in Toronto, where he covered boxing, which became [...]
September 29, 2011 – 6:59 pm
Our second Roundtable of September examines “The Good Short Life,” by Dudley Clendinen. Diagnosed with ALS, Clendinen reflects on the past suffering of those closest to him and decides that he would prefer to approach death on his own terms, ending his life at a moment of his choosing. His essay ran July 9 in the New [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in editors' roundtable
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Also tagged Charles Dickens, Chip Scanlon, Dudley Clendinen, Jack Fuller, Laurie Hertzel, Maria Carrillo, NPR, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Tom Huang, William Faulkner
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Our first Roundtable of August considers “Blindsided: The Jerry Joseph Basketball Scandal,” by Michael Mooney. The story spotlights a high school basketball player who stirred up questions about truth and identity that the town of Odessa, Texas, is still struggling to answer. “Blindsided” ran in the July issue of GQ and was edited by Michael Benoist. [...]
For the second Roundtable of July, our editors looked at “Watching the Murder of an Innocent Man” by Barry Bearak of the New York Times. Bearak has spent the last three years as co-bureau chief of the Times’ Johannesburg outpost, and his June 5 story investigates the death of a young man at the hands [...]