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Chad A. Stevens on choosing sides and choosing stories: two approaches to mountaintop removal mining

Chad A. Stevens on choosing sides and choosing stories: two approaches to mountaintop removal mining

This spring Leveling Appalachia won a Best of Photojournalism prize from the National Press Photographers Association in the category of documentary film for a website. The story, a look at mountaintop…

What we’re reading: first edition, in which we offer hockey fights, Christmas and a litany of poisons

AP Photo/Muhammed MuheisenSummer is upon us! Well, actually it’s kind of cold and gray outside here, but as you, our imaginary beachgoer, break out the sunblock and pack the Cheetos…
Give Me Something To Read: collecting long-form journalism online

Give Me Something To Read: collecting long-form journalism online

[One in an occasional series of talks with people highlighting long-form journalism online. Prior posts in this series include a look at Gangrey.com.]From “a really little town” in Berkshire County,…
Pictory’s Laura Miner on curation and storytelling: "I don’t really believe the world is fundamentally different"

Pictory’s Laura Miner on curation and storytelling: "I don’t really believe the world is fundamentally different"

Here at Storyboard, we've written before on the question of words and captions in relation to photos, so we were intrigued by Pictory, an online photography site that assembles images…
Megan Prelinger on databases and visual narrative: “I felt smarter, like I’d really learned something about the material”

Megan Prelinger on databases and visual narrative: “I felt smarter, like I’d really learned something about the material”

When you think of using databases to plan a story—if you ever think of such a thing—do your eyes glaze over? Not if you’re Megan Prelinger. But then Prelinger tends…
Liza Faktor on Objective Reality and visual storytelling: “I have never been this excited by technology in my life”

Liza Faktor on Objective Reality and visual storytelling: “I have never been this excited by technology in my life”

What approaches are other countries taking to visual storytelling? How can storytellers thrive in places where journalism has been suppressed or simply doesn’t exist? Pondering these questions, we recently talked…

USC's Henry Jenkins on multimedia storytelling: what can journalists learn from He-Man?

When it comes to narrative multimedia, how can we reimagine storytelling from the ground up? What if templates for new models were right in front of us? In a recent…

The Miami Herald: a case study in the rise of literary journalism at newspapers

Anyone interested in narrative journalism at newspapers should see David Duwe Stanton's master's thesis "The Miami Herald and the Miller Effect: Literary Journalism in the 1980s," submitted to the University…
In the shadow of the ivory tower: what can university magazines offer narrative journalists?

In the shadow of the ivory tower: what can university magazines offer narrative journalists?

Should university magazine editors regularly challenge their publishers? That’s what Ohio State University Assistant VP for Research Communications Earle Holland suggested last week in a comment on the Knight Science…
Michael Kruse on monkey business and narrative writing: "if a story's not moving, a reader is probably stopping"

Michael Kruse on monkey business and narrative writing: "if a story’s not moving, a reader is probably stopping"

We talked by phone this week with St. Petersburg Times reporter Michael Kruse, the author of our latest Notable Narrative. An unusual profile of a monkey on the loose in…