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Twitter as story: a work in progress

December 6, 2010 – 11:18 am

Stephen Colbert mocking the national Christmas tree’s Twitter account shows that the frivolousness of the plucky social media tool is still up for debate. No doubt Twitter’s popularity offsets some of the mockery, and it has contributed to newsgathering and crisis reporting. But does it have any storytelling potential?
Twitter has been a home for crowdsourced [...]

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Michael Kruse on monkey business and narrative writing: “if a story’s not moving, a reader is probably stopping”

May 20, 2010 – 3:03 pm

We talked by phone this week with St. Petersburg Times reporter Michael Kruse, the author of our latest Notable Narrative. An unusual profile of a monkey on the loose in the Tampa Bay area, Kruse’s account comes at the story from the inside out, capturing both the celebrity of the monkey (who counts Jimmy Kimmel [...]

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David Finkel on The Good Soldiers: “I’m not obligated to these men, but I do want to tell a story that they recognize”

May 3, 2010 – 4:35 pm

Tomorrow, Washington Post national enterprise editor David Finkel will receive the 2010 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Good Soldiers, a bruising account of a U.S. Army battalion’s service in Iraq during 2007 and 2008. The $10,000 prize, announced by the Nieman Foundation and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, is given for excellence [...]

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