Digital Storytelling

Unearthing L.A. through a tribal tongue

A team at The Los Angeles Times builds a multimedia narrative to explore an almost-lost language, and reimagine the region as it once was

5 Questions

A hitchhiker’s guide to a galaxy of stories

Michael Paterniti meditates on hitting the road as a way to discover the wonders of the world, and the intimacies and risks of human connections

One Great Sentence

“Truth is whatever you can get enough people to believe.”

5 Questions

An investigative journalist tries his hand at a true crime series for middle schoolers

Bryan Denson recast decades as a newspaper reporter into a top-selling spy biography, and now a series on the FBI for young readers

One Great Sentence

“As I wrote, I was also being written.”

Siri Hustvedt, in her novel "Memories of the Future"

5 Questions

An amputee runs a grueling ultra-marathon in the desert; a reporting team chases along

Veteran sports reporter Jere Longman of The New York Times travels the globe to to write about the people and passion behind the games

5 Questions

A literary take on a hole in the ground

A conversation with David Margolick, who takes a deep dive into a NIMBY story playing out in his Upper West Side neighborhood

One Great Sentence

“There are more what-ifs than there are stars in the sky.”

New Yorker writer Jill Lepore, in a profile of Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Narrative News

A writer who cared enough to strap in; an editor who cared enough to show up

Tommy Tomlinson pays tribute to Charlotte Observer editor Frank Barrows

Annotation Tuesday!

A “book report” on The Mueller Report

A high school English teacher grades Washington Post Alexandra Petri's column on one of the most important documents of our times

Digital Storytelling

Rethinking how we see and understand news — and who frames it

As the digital revolution challenges the trustworthiness of visual images, it also inspires diverse and creative ways to portray a truer, more complex story