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Families on the edge: in print, online, on the screen

Families on the edge: in print, online, on the screen

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,…
January 6, 2017
Kari Howard
Why's This So Good? Thomas Curwen and "The Loneliest War"

Why’s This So Good? Thomas Curwen and “The Loneliest War”

In this story on the "quiet" effects of PTSD, the Los Angeles Times writer realized that the heart of the narrative lay in the tension at home, not in the…
January 5, 2017
Cassa Niedringhaus
Annotation Tuesday! Jessica Weisberg and The Atavist's "A Family Matter"

Annotation Tuesday! Jessica Weisberg and The Atavist’s “A Family Matter”

The writer talks about immersive reporting for her story on two parents' fight to get their kids back from Child Protective Services, and her work across narrative platforms
January 3, 2017
Katia Savchuk
"The Lives They Lived" in The New York Times, and the lives they lost in Aleppo

“The Lives They Lived” in The New York Times, and the lives they lost in Aleppo

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,…
December 23, 2016
Kari Howard
Covering the last days of Aleppo: Even from afar, the heart breaks

Covering the last days of Aleppo: Even from afar, the heart breaks

Journalist Kareem Shaheen, reporting for the Guardian on the besieged Syrian city, talks about the power, and the limitations, of using Skype, Twitter and WhatsApp to report the story
December 22, 2016
Kareem Shaheen
The Washington Post crosses a storytelling frontier with "A New Age of Walls"

The Washington Post crosses a storytelling frontier with “A New Age of Walls”

The multimedia series chronicling the global migrant crisis takes cues from audience behavior and uses those lessons to the story’s advantage
December 20, 2016
Allison Eck
A week of the invisible made visible: the Russian hack of the U.S. election, and a sinister gas leak. Oh, plus... Christmas!

A week of the invisible made visible: the Russian hack of the U.S. election, and a sinister gas leak. Oh, plus… Christmas!

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,…
December 16, 2016
Kari Howard
5 Questions: Nathaniel Rich and "The Invisible Catastrophe"

5 Questions: Nathaniel Rich and “The Invisible Catastrophe”

Tomorrow’s journalists exploring the masters of today Jacqui Banaszynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who now is an endowed Knight Chair  professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Last semester,…
December 15, 2016
Katherine Knott
Now might be a good time to reread a few great stories about Putin, don't you think?

Now might be a good time to reread a few great stories about Putin, don’t you think?

With high-profile stories in The Washington Post and The New York Times reporting that Russia tampered with the U.S. presidential election and Twitter ablaze with references to “The Manchurian Candidate”…
December 12, 2016
Kari Howard
5(ish) Questions: Peter Frick-Wright and "What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?"

5(ish) Questions: Peter Frick-Wright and “What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?”

The Outside magazine writer climbed to a 20,000-foot glacier to try to find out why a plane crashed mysteriously 31 years ago, and wrote a story that's Sherlock Holmes meets…
December 12, 2016
Vincent Bevins