Storytelling prize season wound down last night with the presentation of the National Magazine Awards, the Pulitzers of the American magazine world. Texas Monthly’s Pamela Colloff took the “Ellie” for her two-part narrative series on a man wrongly imprisoned for 25 years in the violent death of his wife. “The Innocent Man” topped stories from Byliner, GQ, Mother [...]
Awards season continues with the announcement of the American Society of Magazine Editors’ finalists for the National Magazine Award. The organization this week honored 62 publications in 23 categories, with winners to be revealed in New York on May 2. The National Magazine Awards have long honored the best of narrative journalism, especially in the Feature [...]
By Paige Williams
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Also tagged American Society of Magazine Editors, ASME, Brian Mockenhaupt, Byliner, Charles Graeber, Dexter Filkins, GQ, Jay Kirk, Karen Russell, Mac McClelland, Mother Jones, National Magazine Awards, Pamela Colloff, The New Yorker, Wired
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Pamela Colloff’s annotated “The Innocent Man” continues today, with the second and final part. (To read Part 1, go here.) The timing couldn’t be better. On Monday, the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) named Colloff’s finely reported Texas Monthly narrative, about the wrongful 25-year imprisonment of a man believed to have murdered his wife, a National Magazine Award [...]
In a recent edition of Storyboard’s Annotation Tuesday!, GQ’s Amy Wallace talked about the crossover between narrative and profile writing. “While I get that the two (genres) are distinct, I actually don’t think of them as being that different,” she told Storyboard. “Not to get too groovy, but it’s all about story and the drivers [...]
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Also tagged 5280 Magazine, Amy Wallace, Ariel Sabar, Atlanta Magazine, GQ, Jason Fagone, Jason Sheeler, Jeannette Cooperman, Justin Heckert, Mimi Swartz, Pamela Colloff, Philadelphia magazine, Robert Sanchez, St. Louis magazine, Steve Volk, Tony Rehagen, Washingtonian Magazine
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In November and December, Texas Monthly‘s Pamela Colloff wrote a two-part series on the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison in the murder of his wife, Christine. Colloff’s story was not the first on the Morton case, not by far; but hers connected the narrative details and context in a [...]
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Also tagged 20/20, 60 Minutes, All Things Considered, Andrew McLemore, Brandi Grissom, Chuck Lindell, Dallas Times Herald, Dave Eggers, David Moorman, Details, Evan Smith, Hugh Aynesworth, Jake Silverstein, Might magazine, Pamela Colloff, the Austin American-Statesman, the Texas Tribune, the Williamson County Sun
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In Part 1 of our roundup of finalists in the 2013 City and Regional Magazine Association and Missouri School of Journalism awards, we offered a taste of the stories nominated in the features category. The nominated writers covered an orchestra audition in Boston (Jennie Dorris, Boston magazine); bullying in Washington State (James Ross Gardner, Seattle [...]
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Also tagged Annotation Tuesday!, Atlanta Magazine, Boston magazine, Bryan Smith, Chicago magazine, Cincinnati, City and Regional Magazine Association, CRMA, Evan West, Indianapolis Monthly, James Ross Gardner, Jennie Dorris, Jonah Ogles, Los Angeles magazine, Louise Farr, Pam Colloff, Rachel Manteuffel, Seattle Met, Steven Mikulan, Thomas Mullen, Washingtonian
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The City and Regional Magazine Association and the Missouri School of Journalism this week announced finalists for the 2013 National City and Regional Magazine Awards. Los Angeles logged the most nominations, followed by Texas Monthly, Atlanta magazine and Philadelphia magazine. Winners will be announced at the 37th annual CRMA conference, May 18-20, in Atlanta. Writers, [...]
By Paige Williams
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Also tagged Atlanta Magazine, Boston magazine, Cincinnati magazine, City & Regional Magazine Association, CRMA, James Ross Gardner, Jennie Dorris, Jonah Ogles, Los Angeles magazine, Missouri School of Journalism, Outside magazine, Rachel Manteuffel, Seattle Met magazine, Thomas Mullen, Washingtonian Magazine
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December 13, 2012 – 9:43 am
We love December for its inevitable bouquet of great year-end stories. Lots of good stuff out there right now, including these, four of our recent favorites: Anne Hull’s poverty piece, “In Rust Belt, a teenager’s climb from poverty,” which documents Pennsylvania teenager Tabi Rouzzo’s struggle to better herself. Hull, who with Dana Priest won the [...]
Every spring, the City and Regional Magazine Association names a Writer of the Year, and twice the organization has handed Justin Heckert that honor. Heckert won recently for Atlanta magazine stories about an AIDS survivor, tornado victims, an underground newspaper, struggling standup comics and zombies. The winners aren’t always what the industry likes to call [...]
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Also tagged 5280 Magazine, 60 Minutes, Amanda Heckert, And the Band Played On, Atlanta Magazine, City & Regional Magazine Association, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, CRMA, Daimon Eklund, Decatur Book Festival, Diana Raschke, Ernest Hemingway, ESPN The Magazine, Greg Mellen, Indianapolis Magazine, Joyce Carol Oates, Justin Heckert, Lee Walburn, Luke Dittrich, Mike Wallace, Mimi Swartz, Missouri Sch, My Own Country, Pat Heckert, PBS, Philadelphia magazine, Rebecca Burns, Robert Huber, Robert Sanchez, Ryan Cameron, Seth Wickersham, Steve Fennessy, Steve Walentik, The Bird, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Thomas Lake, Tony Rehagen, William Faulkner, Wright Thompson
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It was the altitude, officially. If the flight attendant was concerned about my tears, or if the little girl in the pink hoodie across the aisle was curious: Reading at 13,000 feet makes one susceptible to mood swings. It’s a scientific fact. It couldn’t have had anything to do with the fact that Skip Hollandsworth of Texas Monthly [...]
