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Making good journalistic trouble, Part IV: Tracing the cause and effect of...
EDITOR’S NOTE: In a series on making “good trouble” through journalism, Paul A. Kramer of Vanderbilt University argues for seven approaches that can help create partnerships between writers and readers...
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Making good journalistic trouble, Part V: Expanding perspective and empathy
EDITOR’S NOTE: In a series on making “good trouble” through journalism, Paul A. Kramer of Vanderbilt University argues for seven approaches that can help create partnerships between writers and readers...
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Making good journalistic trouble, Part VI: Shared responsibility for social...
EDITOR’S NOTE: In a series on making “good trouble” through journalism, Paul A. Kramer of Vanderbilt University argues for seven approaches that can help create partnerships between writers and readers...
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Making good journalistic trouble, Part VII: Seeing through other moral lenses
EDITOR’S NOTE: In a series on making “good trouble” through journalism, Paul A. Kramer of Vanderbilt University argues for seven approaches that can help create partnerships between writers and readers...
View ArticleSocial-change journalism can make “good trouble”
EDITOR’S NOTE: In a series on making “good trouble” through journalism, Paul A. Kramer of Vanderbilt University argues for seven story approaches that can help address social problems. From his...
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Ads on radio and news sites here in Seattle are promoting “Potted Potter,” a romp of a stage play that retells all seven Harry Potter books — more than 4,000 pages worth — in 70 minutes. I’ve read...
View ArticleSex and cats: The 2022 people’s choice awards
Analytics measure more and more in our lives. I receive a report every week sending me stats that show how Storyboard posts performed on eight different measures. Eight. Everything seems to be about...
View ArticleTools and inspiration at your fingertips: The 2022 editor’s favorites
As the year comes to a close, we bring you our version of the best-of lists. We started with the reader’s choice awards: the Storyboard posts that ranked in the top 10 according to pageview analytics....
View ArticleWriting practice with a purpose
By Jacqui Banaszynski As we turned the last pages of 2022, I am pondering the years past and the year ahead and the concept of writing practice. I’ve spent my professional life trading in the written...
View ArticleThe real “talent” behind great writing? Passion and practice
By Dale Keiger In 2014, I interviewed a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University about the use of computer simulations to rehabilitate stroke patients. At one point our conversation veered to this...
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If journalism is part of the problem, can it be part of the solution?
By Lauren Kessler “Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what’s wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to...
View ArticleThe not-so-secret secret to winning a Pulitzer
By Jacqui Banaszynski It was a favorite diversion of mine, when I was teaching at the Missouri School of Journalism, to wander down the hall from my office to the newsroom of the Columbia Missourian. I...
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“Sleep will not come for her…”
Haven’t we all been tortured by those nights when, no matter how hard we try or how desperate we are for rest, we cannot fall asleep — often when we need it most? It is such a universal experience —...
View ArticleGuidance on the lonely road of writing
EDITOR’S NOTE: Six mid-career freelance journalists who specialize in science and environmental stories offered takeaways from a weeklong workshop on nonfiction writing held at a guest ranch in...
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A profile of a single mom trying to raise a “good man” balances transparency...
By Trevor Pyle When Jose A. Del Real was on the lookout for people navigating the snarled thicket of American masculinity, he found an unexpected one: a 23-year-old waitress and single mom in northeast...
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How a documentary filmmaker captures “lived experience”
By Kristen Chin A self-described “perennial schoolboy” at heart, Omar Mullick is both romantic daydreamer and pragmatic journalist. It’s in the first few moments speaking with him that I can tell why...
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How to exercise your descriptive muscles
By Jacqui Banaszynski It’s a common theme when a Storyboard contributor interviews a journalist about a descriptive analogy or metaphor in a written piece: How did you come up with that analogy? The...
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Spending time to report a meditation on the long tail of grief
By Chip Scanlan When Rick Rojas became a national correspondent for The New York Times, a colleague told him to focus on the second word of his new title. As correspondents, Rojas says, “We are, in a...
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Challenging the stereotype of Uvalde’s plucky child survivor
By Mallary Tenore Tarpley Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox has spent six years covering stories of gun violence and children, fashioning a beat out of one of America’s most heartbreaking...
View ArticleHow empathy can tell a more honest story of gun-violence trauma
By Jacqui Banaszynski My fingers felt heavy on the keyboard last week as I edited two special posts that were long in the making. The posts themselves explore the kind of craft tools and inspiration —...
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