I spoke to the Public Relations Society of America’s Charlotte chapter on Wednesday. They’re a good group. Sometimes I speak off the top of my head at this sort of thing, but this time I actually wrote out some thoughts, so I thought I’d post them in the spirit of Austin Kleon’s “show your work” idea. If you [...]
December 28, 2012 – 12:00 am
We welcomed thousands of new visitors to Storyboard this year along with exciting new contributors and content. Thanks for your continued enthusiasm and support, and for helping to further the storytelling aspect of the Nieman Foundation‘s journalistic mission, which celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2013. To stay in closer touch, join us on Twitter at @niemanstory [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative news
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Also tagged Ann Marie Lipinski, Buzz Bissinger, Constance Hale, David Grann, Gay Talese, Jacqui Banaszynski, Jeff Sharlet, Julia Barton, Madeleine Blais, Malcolm Gladwell, Maria Henson, Mark Bowden, Nora Ephron, Rebecca Skloot, Rob Boynton, Sports on Earth, Ta-Nehisii Coates, Tim Carmody, Tom Levenson
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February 14, 2012 – 12:00 pm
When I was little, my mama worked the early shift at the seafood plant. She’d drop me off at my Aunt Janice’s house before dawn and they’d lay me down on a pallet in the living room. Country music played low on the stereo. I knew Charley Pride and Loretta Lynn before I knew words. [...]
January 3, 2012 – 11:38 am
The hell with my lede. Let’s start with his: I’m sitting in a hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, waiting for a call from a man who doesn’t trust me, hoping he’ll have answers about a man I don’t trust, which may clear the name of a man no one gives a damn about. That’s how [...]
[UPDATE: Good news! Iran has allowed Dorothy to return to Qatar. For more information, read our post on Dorothy's release.] At a Nieman Foundation gathering over the weekend in Cambridge, a decade’s worth of current and former fellows joined with foundation staff to celebrate the tenure of departing Nieman curator Bob Giles. While journalists from [...]
September 7, 2010 – 1:49 pm
Tommy Tomlinson has been a local columnist for The Charlotte Observer for the past 13 years but recently announced that he’s switching jobs to embark on a storytelling experiment for the paper. A former Nieman fellow and Storyboard contributor, Tomlinson was also a Pulitzer finalist for commentary in 2005. We’ve covered other innovative storytelling efforts [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in audio narratives, images, words
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Also tagged PostSecret, Pulitzer Prize, Roy Peter Clark, StoryCorps, The Charlotte Observer, The Washington Post, The Wichita Eagle, This American Life, Ze Frank
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We talked by phone this week with St. Petersburg Times reporter Michael Kruse, the author of our latest Notable Narrative. An unusual profile of a monkey on the loose in the Tampa Bay area, Kruse’s account comes at the story from the inside out, capturing both the celebrity of the monkey (who counts Jimmy Kimmel [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in words
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Also tagged Ben Montgomery, Bill Duryea, Charlotte magazine, Davidson College, Elizabeth Gilbert, Gary Smith, Jimmy Kimmel, John Barry, Lane DeGregory, Michael Kruse, Mike Wilson, St. Petersburg Times, Stephen Colbert, Thomas Lake
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January 27, 2010 – 8:25 pm
Storyboard contributor (and Charlotte Observer columnist) Tommy Tomlinson recently sent us a link to a sports narrative by Dan Wetzel, describing it as a great example of a story done on deadline. Tomlinson noted the pressures faced by newspaper reporters covering athletic events, adding that Wetzel’s story made him “wonder if newspaper people should change their strategy on this kind of story—maybe [...]
October 27, 2009 – 11:17 am
A few years ago an intern did a study of the writing that showed up in our newspaper. He ran our stories through a computer program that measured the reading level you would need to understand each piece. It turned out that my stories were written at a fifth-grade level. If I remember right, I [...]
October 17, 2009 – 8:52 am
Two video clips recently came in over the transom from readers. Both illustrate the power of storytelling and qualify as good weekend fare for the Storyboard. The first was forwarded to us by a reader of a post on Gigaom.com that looks at memory and story, with a focus on a career applications. In this [...]
