Our latest Notable Narrative comes from the Boston Globe project “9/11: 10 years on,” a wide-ranging collection of print stories, slide shows and video. Many news organizations have unveiled impressive packages for the 10th anniversary of the attack on the U.S., but we were particularly impressed by Eric Moskowitz’s story “Little noted or known, they bear [...]
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From research to story: more from the BIO 2011 conference
June 2, 2011 – 1:59 pm
A bevy of biographers gathered in May in Washington, D.C., at the second annual Compleat Biographer Conference to discuss how to chase down subjects and make their lives into great stories. Last week we covered Robert Caro’s speech on the importance of setting. Today, we have highlights from the panel on “Turning Research into Narrative.” Speakers [...]
What we’re watching: musical fracking, award-winning photojournalism, and documentaries from Cannes
May 18, 2011 – 3:26 pm
From a groovy explainer to a broken contortionist, here are some visual experiences worth a look.
“My Water’s on Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song),” by David Holmes, Andrew Bean, Niel Bekker, Adam Sakellarides and Lisa Rucker from @Studio2oNYU in collaboration with ProPublica. The most entertaining (and catchy!) explainer we’ve seen in a long time. It recalls the [...]
What we’re watching: picturing mercy, breaking down remixes, and garage fighting with keyboards (really)
February 28, 2011 – 4:11 pm
You bulked up your movie-watching to prepare for the Oscars, and now they’re over. What next? If you’re pining for some new things to see, we’ve got some options for you. And for better or worse, none of them involve Kirk Douglas.
“Afghanistan, February 2011,” assembled by Alan Taylor at The Atlantic (who previously founded The [...]
What we’re reading: novelists do nonfiction, a witness recants, and two friends jump into the Charles River
November 5, 2010 – 11:29 am
Today, we set aside election reporting (which we’ll return to soon) in order to gin up some reading for your Thursday anxieties: dubious conviction and cultural claustrophobia, not to mention suicide and delusion. But there are surprises – and hope – tucked in here: the rich life of the first child diagnosed with autism (now 77), the [...]
Anna Badkhen on her two books about war and a decade as a “professional intruder”
October 25, 2010 – 3:44 pm
I had a chance to sit down last week with Anna Badkhen in Washington, D.C., to talk about her two books out this year, “Peace Meals” and “Waiting for the Taliban” (an e-book), both narrative nonfiction treatments of the effects of war on civilians. Badkhen grew up in Russia and did her first reporting for the English-language [...]
What we’re watching: in which a battalion deploys, Ramadan ends, and a drawing unfolds to illustrate an argument
September 24, 2010 – 4:15 pm
Perhaps it’s just the nippy fall weather descending, but we have a multiplicity of crowdsourced, interactive and on-the-horizon projects. So, depending on your constitution, here are some nuggets of future-of-journalism ideas to make you itchy or jazz you up. Either way, you’ll have the weekend to work it out.
“A Year at War” from The New [...]
Duckrabbit’s Benjamin Chesterton on the Blindfolded Photographer
March 18, 2010 – 12:08 pm
[We recently met Benjamin Chesterton at the Frontline/ICP symposium, where he participated in a discussion on the future of visual narrative. He had some strong opinions about photojournalists and storytelling, and we thought our readers would be interested in hearing his ideas. —Ed.]
One surefire way to irritate blind people is to think that you can put a blindfold on [...]
Best Men
April 24, 2007 – 12:00 am
This series was written and reported by Thomas Farragher and Patricia Wen. It recounts the experiences of a couple and their two sons. One son is straight, the other gay. Both marry during the same summer. Farragher and Wen follow the sons in their relationships and the parents in theirs and along the way provide [...]
How They Did It
March 15, 2007 – 12:00 am
This story about the construction of Boston’s new Institute of Contemporary Art building is a good example of involving readers in an overarching narrative, covering a lot of ground in relatively short space. It’s the kind of topic a paper often covers, the big construction project of great interest to readers. Edgers’ clear prose, his [...]
