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The Pulitzer at 100: The Boston Globe's Spotlight team and an epic series on priest abuse

The Pulitzer at 100: The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team and an epic series on priest abuse

The reporters won the 2003 Public Service award for its dogged and far-reaching investigation that put a human face on the victims
August 4, 2016
Ashley Powers

Annotation Tuesday! Davy Rothbart and The California Sunday Magazine’s “Crowd Source”

The writer leaps into the abyss of pay-for-protest audiences, faux cheerleaders and pretend paparazzi -- and embraces the chaos
August 2, 2016
Davis Harper
Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs and Dorothy Parker -- now that would be some party

Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs and Dorothy Parker — now that would be some party

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,…
July 29, 2016
Kari Howard
Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Aviv and "Your Son Is Deceased"

Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Aviv and “Your Son Is Deceased”

The New Yorker writer talks about a police department awash in machismo and parents who are told their home is in a "kill zone"
July 26, 2016
Steve Weinberg
Just in time for another convention, Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72"

Just in time for another convention, Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72”

Matt Pearce on the mad genius of the Rolling Stone dispatches, and the writer as a forefather of weird Twitter
July 25, 2016
Matt Pearce

Carrie at the prom and the Nora Charles of the Allagash

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,…
July 22, 2016
Kari Howard
Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

The Mother Jones reporter on the risks, rewards and lessons learned after going undercover inside America’s private prison system
July 21, 2016
Davis Harper

Kate Christensen: “It is crucial to avoid grinding axes, settling scores and pointing fingers in your memoir”

The PEN/Faulkner winner talks about the differences in creating characters in memoir vs. fiction, plus finding happiness in Maine
July 19, 2016
Kari Howard
Digital longform as journalism jetpack, and "Walking While Black"

Digital longform as journalism jetpack, and “Walking While Black”

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,…
July 15, 2016
Kari Howard
Digital longform, and the pitfalls of the "build it and they will come" approach to business models

Digital longform, and the pitfalls of the “build it and they will come” approach to business models

Readers with delicate sensibilities, you might want to prepare yourself for the results of one Missouri student's thesis research
July 14, 2016
Kari Howard