Best of the best of the best?
Here’s a highly curated list for you. Robert Atwan, the editor of the “Best American Essays” series, has selected for the Publishers Weekly website his top 10 essays since 1950. Atwan is careful to...
View ArticleBringing creativity to complex issues: The Washington Post, New Republic and CIR
This week’s 3 for 2 picks highlight recent work that incorporates elements of creative storytelling to examine complex issues, with standout journalism on national security, criminal justice and the...
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5 Questions for Jill Lepore
No wonder Jill Lepore describes herself as a “code-switcher.” She’s both a prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Her most recent book,...
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Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and “If He Hollers Let Him Go”
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and I met recently in her Brooklyn apartment to talk about “If He Hollers Let Him Go.” Her story, which is and isn’t about comedian Dave Chappelle, ran in the October 2013 issue...
View ArticlePinker, King and Sager on writing
For this weekend’s selections, Storyboard recommends reading about writing; we’re highlighting some recent articles that feature advice from authors whose worlds range from horror to science to...
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Jonathan Eig searches for the characters of his new book
In previous books, best-selling author Jonathan Eig profiled baseball legend Lou Gehrig and Chicago gangster Al Capone. But as he set about researching his most recent project, he faced an interesting...
View ArticleFourth “Power of Storytelling” conference opens in Romania
If we were in Bucharest today, we could listen to newly named New York Times deputy international editor Amy O’Leary talk about digital storytelling or delve into the less glamorous aspects of the...
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5 Questions for David Finkel
David Finkel describes his "deliberate" reporting process to the Nieman Fellows Jonathan Seitz In selecting David Finkel for one of its “genius” grants in 2012, the MacArthur Foundation described him...
View Article“Serial” podcast producers talk storytelling, structure and if they know...
If, in recent weeks, you’ve walked up to a group at a party passionately debating whether Jay is telling the truth or overheard a headphone-wearing passenger on the train mutter something about a body...
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Annotation Tuesday: Jonathan Goldstein and The Little Mermaid
Annotation Tuesday ventures into a new medium today with our first annotation of a radio story. It’s a natural fit. The human voice is, of course, the original storytelling instrument. Plus, some of...
View Article5 Questions for Tyler Hicks
Some of the most compelling, controversial images of conflict and terror in recent memory — a woman hiding with her children, motionless on a restaurant floor, a man carrying a boy’s body along a Gaza...
View ArticleThird Coast Conference: Are journalism and storytelling “frenemies?”
Editor’s Note: Every other fall, hundreds of radio producers, journalists, documentarians and other audio artists gather in Chicago for the Third Coast conference to examine, explore and celebrate the...
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Third Coast Conference: the invisible craft of StoryCorps
Editor’s note: In her second dispatch from the recent Third Coast audio storytelling conference, radio producer Julia Barton looks at the approach the producers of StoryCorps, the non-profit oral...
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Third Coast Conference: Narrative off the news
Editor’s note: In her third and final dispatch from the recent Third Coast audio storytelling conference, radio producer Julia Barton examines a dilemma journalists in every medium face: how to create...
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Annotation Tuesday: the Porn Star and Mike Sager
I’ve been thinking about Mike Sager’s story, “The Devil and John Holmes,” for a long time. I first read his chronicle of the famous porn star and the Wonderland murders when it came out in 1989; I was...
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Beyond the “Serial” box: Other podcasts worth your time
If coming off a long holiday weekend weren’t hard enough, there’s another reason this Monday may seem rougher than usual. There’s no new “Serial” episode to talk about. Gabe Bullard The hugely popular...
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New Print Magazines Are Embracing Narrative and Finding Their Niche
In 2011, as the Arab Spring dawned, young Lebanese journalist Ibrahim Nehme yearned to play a role in the changes sweeping the Middle East. The region’s print media, he believed, didn’t measure up to...
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Best of Storyboard: Reader Favorites for 2014
This year marked some major changes at Storyboard: new website, new editor and new narrative territory. Our most popular posts of 2014 reflect some timely– and timeless– themes. Most notable is the...
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Stories We Loved: Some Favorite Narrative from 2014
It’s that time of year when “Best of” lists litter the landscape like pine needles. Here at Storyboard, we decided to do something a little different to commemorate 2014. We asked a handful of terrific...
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What 14 Great Writers Taught One Journalism Class
Matt Tullis I knew it was going to be a great class the second week of the semester, when Mike Sager told my 11 undergraduate journalism majors about the time he snorted coke with a pimp who lived on...
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