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Nieman Storyboard Best of 2025: Your favorite stories of the year (Part 1)

We asked, you answered — here are some of your favorite stories, books, and podcasts

Mark Armstrong

Podcast

Photojournalist Stephanie Keith on documenting ICE and capturing a moment that became the cover of New York magazine

Keith shares the story behind her cover photo for New York magazine’s ‘The Trap at 26 Federal Plaza’ and the importance of photojournalism in documenting history

Marina Leigh

Strictly Q&A

How the team behind the ‘American Shrapnel’ podcast helped their sources feel safe

As a reporting team revisited a series of bombings across the South in the 1990s, fears of political backlash remained prevalent

Minda Honey

Podcast

Sasha Bonét on ‘leaving room for the story to shape itself’ and how a family home can become a character

The writer and cultural critic breaks down her approach on interviewing, research, and story structure for her memoir, “The Waterbearers”

Christina M. Tapper

Nieman Storyboard’s guides on storytelling

Story Craft

The art of pitching: How to sell your book or story idea

Editors from The Atavist, Wired, and more share what they’re looking for in a story or book proposal.

Story Craft

How to craft a narrative: Everything you need to know

A four-part series on the key elements of nonfiction storytelling, including scene, character and endings.

Lauren Kessler

Story Craft

The Nieman Storyboard guide to books on storytelling

Journalists, authors, producers, filmmakers, and Nieman Storyboard readers share more than 40 books that inspire their work.

Mallary Tenore Tarpley

Story Craft

How to interview for narrative vs. news

From broad and open-ended to narrow and specific: Journalist Kim Cross’s five-part series on interviewing for narrative nonfiction.

Kim Cross

Strictly Q&A

Podcast Strictly Q&A

Photojournalist Stephanie Keith on documenting ICE and capturing a moment that became the cover of New York magazine

Keith shares the story behind her cover photo for New York magazine’s ‘The Trap at 26 Federal Plaza’ and the importance of photojournalism in documenting history

Marina Leigh

Story Craft Strictly Q&A

How the team behind the ‘American Shrapnel’ podcast helped their sources feel safe

As a reporting team revisited a series of bombings across the South in the 1990s, fears of political backlash remained prevalent

Minda Honey

Podcast Strictly Q&A

Story Annotations

Behind the Scenes: Bloomberg examines a private detention center and a town 'Addicted to ICE'

Rachel Adams-Heard, Polly Mosendz, and Fola Akinnibi looked at local government agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain immigrants in New Mexico

Mark Armstrong

Story Annotations

A profile of a newspaper press becomes a requiem for an era

Los Angeles Times veteran Thomas Curwen found professionalism and pride in the last Friday night run of the newspaper's storied presses

Trevor Pyle

Story Annotations

Finding a quiet voice in the center of America’s screaming immigration debate

The Washington Post's Ruby Cramer profiled a small-city selectman caught in the crossfire of fear, anger and blame over asylum seekers

Trevor Pyle

Story Craft

The art of dialogue: 5 conversations from great narrative stories

From the Editor

‘Believe in yourself and just go all in’

Photojournalist Stephanie Keith on not letting the naysayers hold you back. Plus: Goldsmith Awards submissions, and Storyboard's Best of 2025

Mark Armstrong

From the Editor

Making room for dialogue

Plus: Keep sharing your favorite stories of 2025

Mark Armstrong

From the Editor

Share your favorite stories (and podcasts, books, and docs) of 2025

Nieman Storyboard's Best of 2025. Plus: The team behind ‘American Shrapnel’ on helping sources feel safe

Mark Armstrong

Nieman Storyboard Best of 2025: Your favorite stories of the year (Part 1)

Photojournalist Stephanie Keith on documenting ICE and capturing a moment that became the cover of New York magazine

How the team behind the ‘American Shrapnel’ podcast helped their sources feel safe

Sasha Bonét on ‘leaving room for the story to shape itself’ and how a family home can become a character

Nieman Storyboard’s guides on storytelling

The art of pitching: How to sell your book or story idea

How to craft a narrative: Everything you need to know