September 14, 2012 – 9:54 am
We chose Erin Sullivan’s story about a 9/11 survivor as our latest Notable Narrative for the usual reasons − interesting characters; strong, memorable writing − but also because it contained the watermark of a takeaway for surviving trauma. “Watermark” because, as in all good narrative, the writer stays out of the way and lets the story unfold [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in tips, words
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Also tagged Alex Orlando, Bay News 9, Birmingham Post-Herald, Bridget Hall Grumet, CNN, Erin Sullivan, Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Storyboard, Tampa Bay Times
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September 7, 2012 – 11:14 am
The first week of fall term ends today at Harvard, and the Nieman Foundation’s newest class of fellows is settling in. The Nieman fellowship, which next year will celebrate its 75th anniversary, brings together 12 U.S. and 12 international journalists for one year of study across the university. Fellows pursue the topics of their choice, [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Alexandra Garcia, Ann Marie Lipinski, Atsuko Chiba, Barry Bingham Jr., Beauregard Tromp, Best Food Writing, Betsy O'Donovan, Blair Kamin, blogosin.org, Borja Echevarría de la Gándara, Brett Anderson, Carroll Binder, Chong-ae Lee, Chris Arnold, Cooperativa, David Abel, Der Spiegel, Don van Natta, Donald W. Reynolds, e-news Africa, Edward R. Murrow, El País, Emphas.is, ESPN, Finbarr O'Reilly, Food & Wine, Global Entrepreneur magazine, Gourmet, Homicide Watch, Huy Duc, Independent Newspapers, James Beard Award, Jane Spencer, Jane's Defence Weekly, Jeneen Interlandi, Jennifer B. McDonald, Jin Deng, Karim Ben Khelifa, Katrin Bennhold, Laura Norton Amico, Laura Wides-Munoz, Le Monde, Liberation.fr, Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, Ludovic Blecher, Mary Beth Sheridan, Medford Mail-Tribune, Newsweek, Nieman Fellows, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation, NPR, Paula Molina, Reuters, Robert Waldo Ruhl, Ruth Cowan Nash, Salon, San Truong, Scientific American, Seoul Broadcasting System, Souad Mekhennet, Southern Weekly, Stern, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, the Committee to Protect Journalists, The Daily Beast, the Durham Herald-Sun, The Economic Observer, the International Herald Tribune, the Jerusalem Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Oxford American, the Pulitzer Prize, the Saigon Economic Times, The Times-Picayune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, Tuoi Tre, Vanity Fair, Walter Lippmann, William Montalbano, Yaakov Katz, ZDF
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Two AP reporters and an editor on three continents produced the story that we’ve chosen as our latest Notable Narrative. Kristen Gelineau (Sydney), Ravi Nessman (Delhi), and Mary Rajkumar (Miami; she’s the AP’s international enterprise editor) collaborated on the two-part saga of Saroo Brierley, who fell asleep on a train in India as a child, lost his family, was [...]
At last month’s Investigative Reporters & Editors conference, in Boston, hundreds of reporters attended dozens of sessions on everything from analyzing unstructured data to working with the coolest web tools and building a digital newsroom. The conference, which started in the 1970s, after a Phoenix reporter died in a car bomb while covering the mob, is usually [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in tips
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Also tagged Adam Goldman, Caitlin Ginley, Carol Marbin Miller, CBC, Charles Lewis, Chicago Tribune, DART Center for Journalism & Trauma, Doug Haddix, Elizabeth Ritvo, ESPN, Gary Marx, Harvey Cashore, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Jeff Neff, Jeff Pyle, Josh Bernstein, Ken Armstrong, Kiera Feldman, Kimberly Kindy, Margot Williams, Miami Herald, NPR, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Stan Alcorn, Steve Fainaru, Susan Greene, the Center for Pub, The Daily, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, This Land Press, Walt Bogdanich
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This is a finely reconstructed account of a charismatic leader who moved into a town and changed nearly everything about it. We like Lewan’s opening paragraphs: His language suggests legend or origin myth—the tribal elder saying, “Have a seat, young ones, and I’ll tell you the story of how all of this came to be.” [...]
How did Lewan make this piece so compelling? Of course, the event is made for narrative. But notice how it’s told: the relentlessly active verbs—the ship teeters and plunges, the water sloshes, the windspeed spikes—the vivid detail, strong pace and suspense. Lewan uses the serial approach handily, ending each installment with a cliffhanger moment. And [...]
