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Following the Idler’s Manifesto and listening to the Supremes on a...
Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
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The Pulitzer at 100: Taro Yamasaki and life inside Jackson State Prison
Taro Yamasaki quit journalism school in 1968 to go to New York and become a photojournalist; he thought he’d become successful very quickly. Although he did do some documentary photography, for the...
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5(ish) Questions: Photographer Niki Boon on documenting her children “Wild...
In Niki Boon’s photographs, it’s a kids’ world. Grown-ups almost never show up, and when they do, they’re merely functional: putting on a bandage, cutting hair. The kids wear what they want, get as...
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It’s photography week here at Storyboard (including a cool one of Paul Newman)
Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
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Annotation Tuesday! David Wolman + Julian Smith and “The Cold War”
When you read a lot of longform stories, you can’t help noticing something: They tend to be very, very serious. Think fast: How many made you laugh? Epic magazine’s “The Cold War,” by David Wolman and...
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The Pulitzer at 100: Michael Parks and the unraveling of apartheid
South Africa was boiling. It was 1986, and security forces were cracking down on anti-apartheid activists daily and with brutal force. Black activists were disappearing from the streets. Bombs were...
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Rashomon (the ice cream truck version), and a headline-happy dame called...
Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
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The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”
Want an end-of-summer beach read that’ll turn heads faster than a Burkini ban? Consider Asma Lamrabet’s book, Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading, which has just been translated into English...
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5(ish) Questions: René Koster and a stunning voyage to Antarctica
In the competitive world of professional photography, René Koster takes a back seat to his subjects. His photos don’t scream out, “Hey, look how clever I am!” but rather they whisper, “Psst, this is...
View ArticleLin-Manuel Miranda gives some really cool tips on how to become a great...
You don’t have to be a “Hamilton” groupie to love this wonderful interview that Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski did recently with the blockbuster play’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda. (But...
View ArticleRobert Caro and the lightbulb moment he had writing his first book, “The...
When the historian Robert Caro spoke at the recent Pulitzer Centennial event hosted by the Nieman Foundation, one emotion was palpable: outrage. Fifty years after he wrote about the Roth family and a...
View ArticleA “live” annotation of a Pulitzer-winning lede: Madeleine Blais and “Zepp’s...
A week ago, the Nieman Foundation hosted a fabulous event celebrating the Pulitzer’s Centennial. The theater was gorgeous, the stars A-list (Robert Caro, Laura Poitras and Bob Woodward, to name a...
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The poetics of documentary at the Camden International Film Festival
It’s hard to beat a sunny September afternoon like this: You take a back road past trees whose leaves are showing the first colors of fall. You drive by a lake, and then another, and then another. You...
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Pairing Robert Caro and Public Enemy: Does it get any better than that?
Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
View ArticleDigital innovations and storytelling: It’s a chaotic world, but you can take...
We all know that journalism — and narrative journalism in particular — is in a profound moment of transition. But the million-dollar question is: How do we take advantage of this moment? It’s tricky,...
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Annotation Tuesday! Jeff Maysh and “The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit”
Longform specialist Jeff Maysh has a penchant for telling genre-breaking stories about people with secret lives. There’s the mom who assumed her daughter’s identity to return to high school; the...
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5 Questions: Robert Sanchez and “Colorado Springs’ Identity Crisis”
When I saw that Robert Sanchez, a senior writer at Denver magazine 5280, had taken on Colorado Springs in his story for the publication’s April issue, I couldn’t wait to read it. Like Sanchez, I grew...
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Kerouac, Kristofferson and a new generation of journalists who love narrative
Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
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Annotation Tuesday! Brian Kevin and “The Belfast Operation”
Like a lot of people “from away” with a stake in Maine, I’ve been reading Down East magazine for several years now. It was a comfort read, something that connected me to the state. It took awhile to...
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5(ish) Questions: The creators of “visual narrative start-up” Primer Stories
Anyone who’s taken a shortcut and skipped the primer while painting a room knows the kind of results you can get. Uneven. Unpolished. The primer sets the stage for a beautiful wall. That’s kind of the...
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