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What we’re reading: digital long-form enterprise, quest narratives, a...
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,...
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“What’s on your syllabus?”
Every narrative journalist can point to a story or a book, or two, that changed their lives, and that made them want to tell true stories. What story does it for you? Where was your love born? When we...
View ArticleWriters, Editors Talk Shop at Missouri
Forget South by Southwest. The real happening place to be Monday, at least if you’re a narrative nerd, was Columbia, Missouri, where you could have heard a full day’s worth of conversations between...
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Virtual Reality Lets the Audience Step into the Story
You’re standing in the middle of an eerily empty two-lane road. Cookie-cutter apartment complexes surround you. Broad-leaved trees line the street. It looks like an average American suburb, but...
View Article“Power of Narrative” Conference: The Secrets of Access
Editor’s Note: Last weekend, Boston University hosted its annual conference on narrative journalism. In the first of two dispatches from the conference, Nieman Fellow Gabe Bullard writes about a panel...
View Article“Power of Narrative” Conference: Three ways to tell a story
Editor’s note: In his second and final installment from last weekend’s “Power of Narrative” conference at Boston University, current Nieman Fellow Gabe Bullard explores strategies for storytelling as...
View ArticleWeekend picks: Child stars, scandal and poetry
Want some smart, provocative, moving stories for your weekend inspiration? Here are Storyboard’s picks of some notable recent work, ranging from poetry about race to essays on journalistic misdeeds and...
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Ari Daniel: “It’s so important to show stories that have hopeful threads.”
If you heard a story last week on NPR’s “Here and Now” about a new kind of nuclear reactor or perhaps remember a recent piece on PRI’s “The World” about the death of the word “uh,” you’ve encountered...
View ArticleThree Pulitzer Winners to Read Now
The Pulitzer Prizes are revealed in one fell swoop, winners and finalists alike, 21 separate categories that cover everything from music to history to local news reporting. And many of the winning...
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A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Diana Marcum
Diana Marcum is the first to acknowledge that her path to a Pulitzer Prize may be an unexpected one. “My parents died when I was young. I didn’t get through college. I didn’t have any of the right...
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Exploring the Rise of Live Journalism
In 2001, while interning at the Associated Press bureau in Rome, Samantha Gross started working as a guide, giving walking tours of the Vatican, meandering through St. Peter’s Basilica with visitors,...
View ArticleAnnotation Live! The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos and Richard M. Daley
If you’re read the most recent Storyboard feature for the Nieman Reports magazine — and, if you haven’t, here it is — you may know that narrative is increasingly taking to the stage and streets as...
View ArticleMemorial Day Reading List
It’s easy to forget, amid all the cookouts and trips to the beach, that Memorial Day was created to remember the men and women who have died in military service. In honor of the holiday, we’ve gathered...
View ArticleCity, Regional Magazine Awards Announced
If there’s anywhere that crime pays, it might be at this year’s National City and Regional Magazine Awards, where a majority of the winning stories, announced last night at the annual CRMA conference...
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Annotation Tuesday: Jeanne Marie Laskas and Guns ‘R Us
When Jeanne Marie Laskas set out to write about guns for GQ magazine in 2012, she knew it would be difficult but she didn’t expect it would become the story that, as she puts it, “nearly ate me alive.”...
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Peter Slevin tackles the biography of First Lady Michelle Obama
Editor’s Note: Anyone who writes about politics and politicians knows how difficult it is to bring fresh insight to familiar issues and personalities. That challenge is even greater if your subject is...
View Article23 Things I’ve Learned from (Not) Being a Columnist
Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich delivered the following remarks as the keynote speaker at the 2015 conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in Indianapolis on June 26: When I...
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The Riveter: Longform Journalism by Women, for Women
The Riveter's second issue was published in summer 2014, and its third issue is set to publish this fall. Photo courtesy of The Riveter The two journalism students didn’t let their awe at meeting...
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From Mayborn: Confronting Reportorial and Editorial Mistakes
In a room full of writers, Caleb Hannan was remarkably honest and candid about his mistakes. At the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Hannan discussed his 2014 Grantland story that sparked...
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From Mayborn: How Video Can Improve Narrative
Dan Barry said a 90-word wire report from rural Iowa was the spark of what became his 2014 story “The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse.’” Thirty men with intellectual disabilities in a schoolhouse on a hilltop...
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