Lots of the usual suspects are blogging and Tweeting about Joel Achenbach’s piece on the future of narrative journalism that ran in yesterday’s Washington Post. Some people have excerpted interesting bits, such as the great line that “story is the original killer app,” while others have attempted to respond.
Today on the Storyboard, we wanted to [...]
Tag Archives: storytelling
Joel Achenbach and the storytellers’ union
October 30, 2009 – 3:42 pm
The Moth’s Lea Thau on storytelling
October 30, 2009 – 3:40 pm
In some places, the spoken story is thriving. Last night in Boston, that 800-pound gorilla of live storytelling, the Moth, put on an event at the Tsai Performance Center. We decided to ask the Moth’s executive and creative director, Lea Thau, for her thoughts on storytelling. While some of her answers show the unique aspects of [...]
The curious power of storytelling (on the lighter side)
October 17, 2009 – 8:52 am
Two video clips recently came in over the transom from readers. Both illustrate the power of storytelling and qualify as good weekend fare for the Storyboard.
The first was forwarded to us by a reader of a post on Gigaom.com that looks at memory and story, with a focus on a career applications. In this first [...]
Will KCET’s “Departures” set the pace for community storytelling?
October 10, 2009 – 3:35 pm
Last week, the USC Annenberg School on Communications and the National Arts Journalism Program hosted a National Summit on Arts Journalism at USC, highlighting five public projects that are exploring new trends in journalism. One of the projects, “Departures,” from Los Angeles PBS station KCET, is focused on community storytelling, with students using images and audio [...]
