February 4, 2013 – 9:19 am
The Wall Street Journal’s Russell Adams wrote a story last week about four grown men who’ve spent the past 23 years playing tag. Their shenanigans started in high school, and the men have gone to hilarious (and occasionally expensive) lengths to maintain the narrative into adulthood, and to avoid being “it.” Paragraphs 5 and 6 [...]
November 16, 2012 – 2:32 am
Until about the past decade, making films or videos required thousands of dollars of equipment, years of experience and an outlet, be it a theater or a TV station. Now we have cheap and good cameras that most of us carry in our pockets, plus numerous ways to disseminate the content. As a result, video [...]
October 30, 2012 – 10:26 am
The Hurricane Sandy storylines are still unfolding, but one thing became clear on Monday as winds and water overtook New York City and New Jersey in historic proportions: Digital media deepened the transformation of the disaster narrative. Here’s some of what’s out there today in various storytelling forms: The New York Times’ Tumblr-like live update stream was the cleanest [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Alexis Madrigal, Gizmodo, Hurricane Sandy, Ian Shapira, Instagram, Justin Brannan, Lydia Calas, Marissa Lang, Mary Norris, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Tampa Bay Times, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME magazine, Tumblr
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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 Associated Press, 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 Washington Post, Time, Tuoi Tre, Vanity Fair, Walter Lippmann, William Montalbano, Yaakov Katz, ZDF
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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 [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative news
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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, Texas Monthly, The Bird, The New York Times, Thomas Lake, Tony Rehagen, William Faulkner, Wright Thompson
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Yesterday afternoon Columbia University announced this year’s Pulitzer Prizes in New York. So many journalists and writers were waiting online for the magic moment that the befuddled Pulitzer site was intermittently unresponsive after the list of winners posted. There was, however, one problem with the list: It had no links. But we at Storyboard have [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in images, narrative news, words
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Also tagged Amy Ellis Nutt, Barbara Davidson, Carol Guzy, Colin Harrison, Eric Foner, Kathleen Gallagher, Los Angeles Times, Mark Johnson, Michael M. Phillips, Nikki Khan, Ricky Carioti, Ron Chernow, Sam Gwynne, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Post and Courier, The Star-Ledger, The Washington Post, Tony Bartelme
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December 13, 2010 – 3:09 pm
One of our sister sites, Nieman Reports, has just posted its latest issue, “The Beat Goes On.” You can take a gander at the issue in its entirety, but we thought we’d include some highlights for those of you with a particular interest in narrative. In “Modern-Day Slavery: A Necessary Beat – with Different Challenges,” [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in images, words
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Also tagged Beth Macy, E. Benjamin Skinner, Frank Deford, Gay Talese, Jason Fry, Lindsay Jones, Melanie Hamman, Nieman Reports, NPR, Red Smith, The Denver Post, The Roanoke Times
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November 4, 2010 – 9:35 am
Digital innovation is providing new tools with intriguing possibilities for storytelling. At the 2010 Online News Association Conference last weekend, Webbmedia’s Amy Webb presented tech trends she thinks might find a place in the future of news. (Before she founded her own company, Webb covered emerging technology, media and cultural trends for Newsweek and the [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged 000 Words, 10, Amy Webb, Flipboard, KnowEm, Lauren Rabaino, Newsweek, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Spokeo, Storify, USA Today, Webbmedia
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August 6, 2010 – 12:45 am
In what might be the only performance of Texas stand-up comedy about narrative writing, Vanity Fair writer Bryan Burrough recently offered practical tips for long-form storytelling to a Mayborn Conference audience. Prior to his magazine career, Burrough spent several years reporting for The Wall Street Journal; he has also written five books, including “Public Enemies” [...]
We spoke this week with writer Ian Johnson about his new book, A Mosque in Munich. After winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his coverage of the Falun Gong movement for The Wall Street Journal, Johnson went on to do a series of articles about Islam in Europe. Returning to one of the stories from that [...]
