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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, Radiolab, Ray Magliozzi, Robert Krulwich, the Center for Investigative Reporting, Tom Magliozzi, Zena Barakat | Comments (0)

Storyboard 2013: New year, new features

January 8, 2013 – 10:41 am

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. [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in narrative news | 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, Nora Ephron, Pam Colloff, Paul Harding, Peter Trachtenberg, Roy Blount Jr., Tampa Bay Times, Wesley Morris, Work the Problem | Comments (0)

Viewfinder: Video storytelling — yes, you can

November 16, 2012 – 2:32 am

Until about the past decade, making films or videos required thousands of dollars of equipment, years of experience and an outlet, be it a theater or a TV station. Now we have cheap and good cameras that most of us carry in our pockets, plus numerous ways to disseminate the content. As a result, video [...]

By Sean Patrick Farrell | Posted in video journalism | Also tagged Amy Harmon, CNN, David Clinch, Mark Scheffler, Melena Ryzik, Storyful, The Wall Street Journal, WorldStream | Comments (1)

Video narrative, #longreads and more

June 28, 2012 – 9:04 am

Keeping you up to date on all things Storyboard, we’d like to point out a few new features and opportunities you might have missed. *We’ve collected some of our most popular chats with narrative storytellers in a new #longreads section, where you can read Q-and-A’s with David Grann, Pam Colloff, Buzz Bissinger, Gay Talese, Jeanne Marie [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Ben Yagoda, Burkhard Bilger, Buzz Bissinger, Calvin Trillin, David Grann, Gay Talese, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Lori Waselchuk, Pam Colloff, Pat Walters, The New York Times, Yvonne Latty | Comments (1)

Kevin Sack on kidney transplants, kickers, the myth of the daily/narrative disconnect and “The Little Mermaid”

April 27, 2012 – 8:39 am

For our latest Notable Narrative we chose Kevin Sack’s “60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked,” a New York Times story about an unprecedented chain of kidney transplants. We admired the story as a deft and moving example of explanatory narrative, and because Sack, a two-time Pulitzer winner, chose an unlikely protagonist, with deeply touching consequences. [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads | Also tagged ABC News, Adam Bryant, Amy Harmon, Anthony Shadid, BBC, Diane Sawyer, Jill Abramson, Kevin Sack, New England Journal of Medicine, Nicole Bengiveno, Pulitzer Prizes, The New York Times | Comments (0)

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