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Storyteller, meet Creatavist

June 13, 2013 – 9:27 am

You are a journalist with a story to tell and you want a new way to tell it. The old systems feel flat for what you hope to do. Your tale has narrative depth, with characters and plot twists but also a range of source material such as maps, photos, videos, audio and documents. The [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Berkeley Graduate, Byliner, Creatavist, Evan Ratliff, Knight Foundation, Matter, Medium, The Paris Review, WBUR | Comments (1)

WBUR + The Atavist + Whitey Bulger: using Creatavist to manage a major tale

June 5, 2013 – 1:13 pm

If you haven’t already seen Justin Ellis’s Nieman Lab piece on WBUR’s plans for the Whitey Bulger trial, have a look at today’s news: The Boston NPR station is partnering with The Atavist to provide immersive storytelling via Creatavist, The Atavist’s new platform. We’ve got a narrative-centric conversation with Atavist co-founder Evan Ratliff coming next week as the [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in interactive narratives, narrative news | Also tagged Creatavist, David Boeri, Evan Ratliff, Justin Ellis, Lisa Tobin, Nieman Lab, Nieman Narrative, NPR, WBUR | Comments (0)

How’s it going with The Big Round Table and other narrative ventures, Michael Shapiro?

May 10, 2013 – 9:46 am

As if longtime Columbia J-school professor Michael Shapiro didn’t already have enough to do, with Big Round Table launching in September: Yesterday he put 17 of his students’ stories online in a pay-what-you want experiment. Project Wordsworth runs for the next week. The idea intrigues us* and we’re interested to see what will happen. As of [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Anna Codrea-Rado, Anna Hiatt, BuzzFeed, Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia School of Journalism, David Blum, Eleonore Hamelin, Huffington Post, Jonah Peretti, Kamakshi Ayyar, Keith Collins, longform.org, longreads, Madeline K.B. Ross, Mary Ann Georgantopoulous, Michael Shapiro, Mike Hoyt, Rashmi Raman, The Big Round Table | Comments (0)

“The Power of Storytelling,” Part 4: Chris Jones on why stories matter, Pat Walters on endings, Walt Harrington on integrity

November 2, 2012 – 8:59 am

In Part 3 of our recap of Romania’s “Power of Storytelling” conference on narrative journalism, radio producer Starlee Kine talked about story forms and themes; Esquire‘s Mike Sager talked about listening, and about suspending disbelief; and Pulitzer winner Alex Tizon talked about writing one’s own story. In Part 2, Pulitzer winner Jacqui Banaszynski wrote a short essay about why she and eight other North American [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Alex Tizon, Ben Montgomery, Bob Dylan, Burkhard Bilger, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, CJMQ radio, Colson Whitehead, Cristian Lupsa, Dave Eggers, David Finkel, David Maraniss, Decat o Revista, Disney Corporation, ESPN, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Gary Smith, Gay Talese, George Orwell, Hearst Corporation, Jacqui Banaszynski, Janet Cooke, Jayson Blair, John Hope Franklin, John McPhee, Jon Franklin, Jonah Lehrer, Jonathan Yardley, Katherine Boo, Lillian Ross, Linton Weeks, Mike Sager, Monica Lewinsky, Pat Walters, Pete Hamill, Pulitzer Prize, Radiolab, Richard Ben Cramer, Roy Peter Clark, Ryszard Kapuscinksi, Sports Illustrated, Starlee Kine, Stephen Glass, Susan Sheehan, the Harvard Advocate, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Tampa Bay Times, Tracy Kidder, Truman Capote, Vivian Gornick, Walt Harrington, Walt Whitman | Comments (1)

“The Power of Storytelling,” Part 3: Starlee Kine on story forms, Mike Sager on suspending disbelief and Alex Tizon on writing your own story

October 31, 2012 – 8:41 am

In Part 2 of our recap of Romania’s “Power of Storytelling” conference on narrative journalism, Pulitzer winner Jacqui Banaszynski wrote a short essay about why she and eight other North American storytellers traveled to Bucharest to talk stories before a sold-out audience of journalists. She talked about the future of storytelling. And Evan Ratliff, founder of The [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Alex Tizon, Chris Jones, Cristian Lupsa, Decat o Revista, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Harper's, Jacqui Banaszynski, Mike Sager, Pat Walters, Paul Tough, Radiolab, Starlee Kine, The Thing, This American Life, Walt Harrington | Comments (0)

“The Power of Storytelling,” Part 2: Jacqui Banaszynski on the future of stories and Evan Ratliff on digital entrepreneurship

October 26, 2012 – 8:28 am

The day I left Bucharest, the International Herald-Tribune ran a front-page story about the shambles that is Romania. After three visits there in three years, I can tell you that it is, indeed, a mess. Communism is lifted and people no longer fear to speak, or to hope. But promises of political reform are broken [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Alex Tizon, Chris Jones, Cristian Lupsa, Decat o Revista, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Jacqui Banaszynski, Mike Sager, Pat Walters, Radiolab, Starlee Kine, This American Life, Travis Fox, Walt Harrington | Comments (5)

“The Power of Storytelling,” Part 1: A bunch of American storytellers go to Romania…

October 25, 2012 – 9:01 am

Early this month, an all-star pack of North American storytellers flew halfway around the world, to Romania, to talk about narrative journalism. They took the stage before a sold-out audience and one by one talked about stories. They got into fear, hope, death, courage, insecurity, and a dozen other things, but above all they talked about [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Alex Tizon, Chris Jones, Cristian Lupsa, Decat o Revista, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Frontline PBS, Jacqui Banaszynski, Jonathan Yardley, Mike Sager, National Magazine Award, Pat Walters, Pulitzer Prize, Radiolab, Starlee Kine, This American Life, Travis Fox, Walt Harrington | Comments (1)

Tori Marlan and Josh Neufeld on the webcomics narrative ‘Stowaway’

October 19, 2012 – 8:23 am

Our latest Notable Narrative is “Stowaway,” an interactive comic, published by The Atavist, that tells the story of a young Ethiopian boy, “Fanuel,” who made his way to the United States via human trafficking and perseverance. The writer is Tori Marlan, a Montreal-based freelance investigative reporter and former Alicia Patterson fellow, and Josh Neufeld, a [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, comics narratives | Also tagged Alicia Patterson fellow, Alissa Quart, Brooke Gladstone, Dan Archer, David Axe, David Greenberger, Evan Ratliff, Harvey Pekar, Jefferson Rabb, Josh Neufeld, Knight-Wallace Fellow, Luke Radl, R. Walker, Smith magazine, the Chicago Reader, The New York Times, Tim Hamilton, Tori Marlan, webcomics | Comments (2)

What we’re reading: digital long-form enterprise, quest narratives, a goalie’s dream, recession survivors, the curated Ayn Rand

August 23, 2012 – 8:17 am

Five from the field: 1. Rachel McAthy’s recent roundup of eight long-form digital projects included sites you probably already know about, like The Atavist, Byliner and Longreads, but also Matter, which recently met its Kickstarter funding goal and plans to publish one in-depth science and technology narrative per week. Learn more via Matter’s Kickstarter page: Narratively, [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads | Also tagged Amy Benfer, Andrew Corsello, Byliner, Cathy Young, Dave Gilson, GQ, Grantland, Jeff Tietz, John Hodgman, Jordan Conn, Kickstarter, LongForm, longreads, Matt Thompson, Matter, Mother Jones, Narratively, NPR, Rachel McAthy, Reason, Rolling Stone, The National Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Thomas Mallon, Whitaker Chambers | Comments (0)

Viewfinder: Video journalism that works

August 10, 2012 – 8:56 am

Whenever I go out on an assignment I get a few of the same questions from onlookers who see me with my tripod and my reasonably large video camera: “What channel are you from?” or “When will this air?” But my favorite, and the one I get most often after I explain that the video [...]

By Sean Patrick Farrell | Posted in video journalism | Also tagged Erik German, GlobalPost, John Branch, Marcus Yam, NBC News, Shayla Harris, Solana Pyne, The Daily, the Detroit Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Seattle Times | Comments (1)

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