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Editors’ Roundtable: Two boys, a basketball and a ‘magical’ shot

February 15, 2013 – 8:14 am

The Oregonian’s Anna Griffin wrote a story last Sunday about a small but rare and memorable moment in high school sports. Deadspin set it up this way: A young man named Davan Overton in unincorporated Oregon plays on his high school basketball team despite a tumor on his spine that has, since he was a toddler, hampered [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in editors' roundtable | Also tagged Anna Griffin, Ben Montgomery, Beth Macy, Finbarr O'Reilly, Jamie Francis, Judy Siviglia, Nieman Fellow, Rob Finch, The Oregonian, The Roanoke Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Tom Shroder | Comments (0)

Amy Ellis Nutt and the wreck of the Lady Mary, Part 2

November 30, 2012 – 9:43 am

In Part 2 of our annotation of Amy Ellis Nutt‘s Pulitzer-winning “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” Nutt, of the Newark Star-Ledger, explains how the investigative track of her five-chapter narrative unfolded. Yesterday, in Part 1, she walked us through the story conception and first two sections of the series, which chronicled the sinking of an [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, annotation tuesday! | Also tagged Amy Ellis Nutt, Jon Franklin, Michael Kruse, Paige Williams, Pulitzer Prize, Susan Casey, the Newark Star-Ledger, Tom Junod | 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 Atavist, the Harvard Advocate, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tracy Kidder, Truman Capote, Vivian Gornick, Walt Harrington, Walt Whitman | Comments (1)

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