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Registration Open: Narrative Conference at Berkeley

Registration Open: Narrative Conference at Berkeley

Registration is now open for “The Latest in Longform,” the new, small-scale narrative journalism conference at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Organized by former Nieman narrative…

3 (Stories) for 3 (Days)

In between those end-of-summer barbecues and final visits to the beach, make time for some good storytelling this Labor Day holiday. Here are Storyboard’s three weekend picks:Writing for GQ in…

“I never intended to write a Starbucks story.”

Starbucks employee Jannette Navarro and her son, Gavin, were the subjects of a story by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor. (Reprinted with permission.) Few pieces of journalism — let…
3 (stories) for 2 (days): A weekend reading list

3 (stories) for 2 (days): A weekend reading list

Pam ColloffIt’s one of the last weekends of the summer and a good time to relax on the front porch with some of the recent noteworthy stories you may have…
"Stay away from your phone"

“Stay away from your phone”

Tom HuangTom Huang, the Sunday and enterprise editor at the Dallas Morning News, offered some good ideas for sharpening storytelling skills during a writing panel at last week’s Asian American…

Annotation: John Jeremiah Sullivan and “Upon This Rock”

[Editor’s note: John Jeremiah Sullivan‘s “Upon This Rock” is by now a modern classic of literary journalism: writer rents an RV, experiences a Christian rock festival (and certain revelations) with a…
Got 19 bucks? Take an online storytelling class with Susan Orlean.

Got 19 bucks? Take an online storytelling class with Susan Orlean.

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Susan Orlean breaks down a semester’s worth of storytelling instruction in a two-hour online video course for Skillshare.com. For $19, you get tips and insight on 14 topics, from…
Storytelling tips from the creative minds behind 'House of Cards,' 'The Newsroom,' PBS, The Moth and more

Storytelling tips from the creative minds behind ‘House of Cards,’ ‘The Newsroom,’ PBS, The Moth and more

“The most important element in a good story is conflict. It’s seeing two opposing forces collide with one another.” That’s from Beau Willimon, the showrunner for House of Cards, and he said it at…
Annotation Tuesday! Rebecca Skloot and the wild dogs of New York

Annotation Tuesday! Rebecca Skloot and the wild dogs of New York

Before Rebecca Skloot published the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, she wrote magazines stories about science and about animals. You may remember her New York Times magazine piece…
Launched: Storyline, the Washington Post's new narrative project intersecting policy and storytelling

Launched: Storyline, the Washington Post’s new narrative project intersecting policy and storytelling

The Washington Post’s new narrative project, Storyline, launched today under the editorship of economics policy correspondent Jim Tankersley, with the tagline “People, policy, data.” As Tankersley explains in his introduction,…