Articles Storyteller, meet Creatavist You are a journalist with a story to tell and you want a new way to tell it. The old systems feel flat for what you hope to do. Your… June 13, 2013 Paige Williams “Why’s this so good?” No. 78: Eli Saslow and “Into the Lonely Quiet” Sunday’s Washington Post carried the kind of story that can leave you limp for days. Rare anymore is the narrative that has such a visceral effect, but Eli Saslow’s piece… June 10, 2013 Paige Williams Pinned: Wells Tower, James Agee, Jill Lepore, David Foster Wallace, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Jennifer Egan, Sylvia Plath Pinned this week, for your storytelling pleasure:Interviewland: Wells Tower talked to Bookforum about alternating between the worlds of journalism and fiction. When asked what he makes of longform’s new popularity… June 7, 2013 Paige Williams Pamela Colloff and Tom Junod talk storytelling At the recent City & Regional Magazine Association conference in Atlanta, Esquire’s Tom Junod and Texas Monthly’s Pamela Colloff interviewed each other for an audience of narrative lovers. Atlanta magazine's Tony Rehagen kindly… June 6, 2013 Paige Williams WBUR + The Atavist + Whitey Bulger: using Creatavist to manage a major tale If you haven’t already seen Justin Ellis’s Nieman Lab piece on WBUR’s plans for the Whitey Bulger trial, have a look at today’s news: The Boston NPR station is partnering with… June 5, 2013 Paige Williams Well hello there. Welcome, new readers! Our audience has grown considerably lately, so we thought this might be a good time to recap Storyboard’s goods and services, and to invite you to follow… June 5, 2013 Paige Williams Best of Storyboard: the essence of story, in a short, haunting song (+ fried chicken) The haunted “third of June” cannot pass without calling out Tommy Tomlinson‘s classic piece on the essence of story, via Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe.” Tomlinson, a onetime Pulitzer… June 3, 2013 Paige Williams Professor Hersey: one student, the iconic author of ‘Hiroshima,’ and 6 timeless takeaways In good fiction, the reader absorbing a compelling narrative never notices the writer as intermediary. In nonfiction, that translator’s presence is inevitable. Since the former is the ideal relationship with… May 30, 2013 Peter Richmond Get Pinterested, Storyboard style Join Nieman Storyboard on Pinterest! We’re expanding our reach via categories on everything from reporting resources to tip sheets. Among our growing number of boards:Narrative news: Fresh quick reads, pinned daily.… May 29, 2013 Paige Williams Everything you need to know about storytelling in 5 minutes I spoke to the Public Relations Society of America’s Charlotte chapter on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. They’re a good group. Sometimes I speak off the top of my head at this… May 24, 2013 Tommy Tomlinson Previous 1 … 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 … 246 Next