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Annotation Tuesday! Jeff Maysh and "The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit"

Annotation Tuesday! Jeff Maysh and “The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit”

Longform specialist Jeff Maysh has a penchant for telling genre-breaking stories about people with secret lives. There’s the mom who assumed her daughter’s identity to return to high school; the…
September 27, 2016
Davis Harper
Digital innovations and storytelling: It's a chaotic world, but you can take advantage of the chaos

Digital innovations and storytelling: It’s a chaotic world, but you can take advantage of the chaos

We all know that journalism — and narrative journalism in particular — is in a profound moment of transition. But the million-dollar question is: How do we take advantage of…
September 26, 2016
Kari Howard
Pairing Robert Caro and Public Enemy: Does it get any better than that?

Pairing Robert Caro and Public Enemy: Does it get any better than that?

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,…
September 23, 2016
Kari Howard
The poetics of documentary at the Camden International Film Festival

The poetics of documentary at the Camden International Film Festival

It’s hard to beat a sunny September afternoon like this: You take a back road past trees whose leaves are showing the first colors of fall. You drive by a…
September 22, 2016
Kari Howard

A “live” annotation of a Pulitzer-winning lede: Madeleine Blais and “Zepp’s Last Stand”

The Nieman Foundation hosted a fabulous event celebrating the Pulitzer’s Centennial. The theater was gorgeous, the stars  A-list (Robert Caro, Laura Poitras and Bob Woodward, to name a few), the…
September 20, 2016
Kari Howard

Robert Caro and the lightbulb moment he had writing his first book, “The Power Broker”

When the historian Robert Caro spoke at the recent Pulitzer Centennial event hosted by the Nieman Foundation, one emotion was palpable: outrage.Fifty years after he wrote about the Roth family…
September 19, 2016
Kari Howard
Lin-Manuel Miranda gives some really cool tips on how to become a great storyteller

Lin-Manuel Miranda gives some really cool tips on how to become a great storyteller

You don’t have to be a “Hamilton” groupie to love this wonderful interview that Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski did recently with the blockbuster play’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda. (But…
September 16, 2016
Kari Howard
5(ish) Questions: René Koster and a stunning voyage to Antarctica

5(ish) Questions: René Koster and a stunning voyage to Antarctica

In the competitive world of professional photography, René Koster takes a back seat to his subjects. His photos don’t scream out, “Hey, look how clever I am!” but rather they…
September 15, 2016
Don Bartletti
The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

Want an end-of-summer beach read that’ll turn heads faster than a Burkini ban? Consider Asma Lamrabet’s book, Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading, which has just been translated into English…
September 12, 2016
Jasmine Bager
Rashomon (the ice cream truck version), and a headline-happy dame called Florabel Muir

Rashomon (the ice cream truck version), and a headline-happy dame called Florabel Muir

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,…
September 9, 2016
Kari Howard