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Viewfinder: Funny business

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 | Posted in video journalism | 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, NPR, Ray Magliozzi, Robert Krulwich, Sean Patrick Farrell, the Center for Investigative Reporting, Tom Magliozzi, Zena Barakat | Comments (0)

The best in narrative, 2012: Storyboard’s top picks in audio, magazines, newspapers and online

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 | Posted in #longreads, audio narratives, narrative news, what we're reading etc. | 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, Paige Williams, Pat Walters, Pejk Malinovski, 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. | Comments (3)

“The Power of Storytelling,” Part 4: Chris Jones on why stories matter, Pat Walters on endings, Walt Harrington on integrity

November 2, 2012 – 8:59 am

In Part 3 of our recap of Romania’s “Power of Storytelling” conference on narrative journalism, radio producer Starlee Kine talked about story forms and themes; Esquire‘s Mike Sager talked about listening, and about suspending disbelief; and Pulitzer winner Alex Tizon talked about writing one’s own story. In Part 2, Pulitzer winner Jacqui Banaszynski wrote a short essay about why she and eight other North American [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Alex Tizon, Ben Montgomery, Bob Dylan, Burkhard Bilger, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, CJMQ radio, Colson Whitehead, Cristian Lupsa, Dave Eggers, David Finkel, David Maraniss, Decat o Revista, Disney Corporation, ESPN, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Gary Smith, Gay Talese, George Orwell, Hearst Corporation, Jacqui Banaszynski, Janet Cooke, Jayson Blair, John Hope Franklin, John McPhee, Jon Franklin, Jonah Lehrer, Jonathan Yardley, Katherine Boo, Lillian Ross, Linton Weeks, Mike Sager, Monica Lewinsky, Pat Walters, Pete Hamill, Pulitzer Prize, Richard Ben Cramer, Roy Peter Clark, Ryszard Kapuscinksi, Sports Illustrated, Starlee Kine, Stephen Glass, Susan Sheehan, The Atavist, the Harvard Advocate, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Tampa Bay Times, Tracy Kidder, Truman Capote, Vivian Gornick, Walt Harrington, Walt Whitman | Comments (1)

“The Power of Storytelling,” Part 3: Starlee Kine on story forms, Mike Sager on suspending disbelief and Alex Tizon on writing your own story

October 31, 2012 – 8:41 am

In Part 2 of our recap of Romania’s “Power of Storytelling” conference on narrative journalism, Pulitzer winner Jacqui Banaszynski wrote a short essay about why she and eight other North American storytellers traveled to Bucharest to talk stories before a sold-out audience of journalists. She talked about the future of storytelling. And Evan Ratliff, founder of The [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Alex Tizon, Chris Jones, Cristian Lupsa, Decat o Revista, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Harper's, Jacqui Banaszynski, Mike Sager, Pat Walters, Paul Tough, Starlee Kine, The Atavist, The Thing, This American Life, Walt Harrington | Comments (0)

“The Power of Storytelling,” Part 2: Jacqui Banaszynski on the future of stories and Evan Ratliff on digital entrepreneurship

October 26, 2012 – 8:28 am

The day I left Bucharest, the International Herald-Tribune ran a front-page story about the shambles that is Romania. After three visits there in three years, I can tell you that it is, indeed, a mess. Communism is lifted and people no longer fear to speak, or to hope. But promises of political reform are broken [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Alex Tizon, Chris Jones, Cristian Lupsa, Decat o Revista, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Jacqui Banaszynski, Mike Sager, Pat Walters, Starlee Kine, The Atavist, This American Life, Travis Fox, Walt Harrington | Comments (4)

“The Power of Storytelling,” Part 1: A bunch of American storytellers go to Romania…

October 25, 2012 – 9:01 am

Early this month, an all-star pack of North American storytellers flew halfway around the world, to Romania, to talk about narrative journalism. They took the stage before a sold-out audience and one by one talked about stories. They got into fear, hope, death, courage, insecurity, and a dozen other things, but above all they talked about [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Alex Tizon, Chris Jones, Cristian Lupsa, Decat o Revista, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Frontline PBS, Jacqui Banaszynski, Jonathan Yardley, Mike Sager, National Magazine Award, Pat Walters, Pulitzer Prize, Starlee Kine, The Atavist, This American Life, Travis Fox, Walt Harrington | Comments (1)

Audio danger: Going live

October 4, 2012 – 8:28 am

One morning this summer, I got on the elevator with a colleague at WNYC, where I’m working as an interim producer for national programs. My elevator pal had just gotten off the subway and was running late for a meeting he’d scheduled. I stared at him, and we burst out laughing – because this was Jad [...]

By Julia Barton | Posted in audio narratives, tips | Also tagged A Prairie Home Companion, Chris Bannon, Jad Abumrad, Jim O'Grady, Robert Krulwich, Studio 360, The Moth, Whad'ya Know?, Wits, WNYC | Comments (0)

Audio danger: stories from the edge of listening

January 4, 2012 – 2:51 pm

[As part of our mission to look at storytelling in every medium, Storyboard is pleased to introduce Julia Barton, who will bring us several posts in 2012 focused on developments in and examples from the world of audio narratives. –Ed.] Writers and video producers live in dread of the wandering eye. Audio producers live for [...]

By Julia Barton | Posted in audio narratives | Also tagged airmedia.org, Andy Mills, APM, Jad Abumrad, Julia Barton, Julie Shapiro, Long Haul Productions, NPR, PRI, Rob Rosenthal, Robert Krulwich, Roman Mars, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Transom, WNYC | Comments (11)

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