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Planet Money’s Adam Davidson solves a Haitian mystery and beats expectations

Planet Money’s Adam Davidson solves a Haitian mystery and beats expectations

Great storytelling sometimes reveals itself by what it leaves out, and so it is that our latest Notable Narratives shine by not focusing on post-earthquake death and devastation in Haiti.…
April 15, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Pulitzer Prizes, 2010 edition: Storyboard archives on finalists and winners

Pulitzer Prizes, 2010 edition: Storyboard archives on finalists and winners

Congratulations to this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners, whose names were announced on Monday. In honor of the new recipients and finalists, we’d like to highlight a few of our past interviews and…
April 14, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
From Treme to the 9/11 Commission Report: index as story

From Treme to the 9/11 Commission Report: index as story

Treme's Wendell PierceSunday night’s Treme debut found a companion in Monday morning’s Times-Picayune: “HBO’s Treme Explained.” The New Orleans paper will offer a weekly encyclopedic post explaining culture and geography…
April 13, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Canada's GDP Project: documenting the economic crisis, one story at a time

Canada’s GDP Project: documenting the economic crisis, one story at a time

A woman confronts financial distress by starting a project to do 100 jobs for $100 each. A painter, musician and former stripper moves to Toronto and tries to start over. A…
April 9, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Marie-Claude Dupont on Canada's GDP Project: "we’re trying to show how these people reinvent themselves"

Marie-Claude Dupont on Canada’s GDP Project: "we’re trying to show how these people reinvent themselves"

photo credit: Martin DelisleWe spoke this week with Marie-Claude Dupont, producer of the GDP Project, an effort to document the economic crisis in Canada. Funded by the National Film Board,…
April 9, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
David Grann on murder, madness and writing for The New Yorker

David Grann on murder, madness and writing for The New Yorker

After years spent thinking he would become a novelist, David Grann turned to nonfiction, realizing that if he found intriguing characters and situations in real life, he “simply had to excavate…
April 5, 2010
Andrea Pitzer

Sports Illustrated's Alexander Wolff on writing and the future of narrative: “I’m not sure I’m going to be on that train”

Yesterday, we highlighted a Sports Illustrated story about the lone goal from a U.S.-England World Cup match in 1950 and the tragic disappearance of the man who scored it. Today, we hear…
April 1, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Joe Gaetjens' magic at the 1950 World Cup (and everything it didn't save him from)

Joe Gaetjens’ magic at the 1950 World Cup (and everything it didn’t save him from)

Writing about an astounding soccer goal made half a century ago by the U.S. team in the first round of the 1950 World Cup, sportswriter Alexander Wolff could have focused…
March 31, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Channeling "The Power of Narrative": Isabel Wilkerson on Boston University's April conference

Channeling "The Power of Narrative": Isabel Wilkerson on Boston University’s April conference

Looking for thoughts on narrative from big names in a small setting? We spoke last week with Isabel Wilkerson, director of narrative nonfiction at Boston University’s College of Communication, about…
March 29, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Andreas Gefeller’s Supervisions: structure as story

Andreas Gefeller’s Supervisions: structure as story

[In our latest look at fine arts photographers who might have something to offer photojournalists, contributing editor Stephanie Mitchell considers the Supervisions project of Andreas Gefeller. Gefeller’s collapsed images and simultaneous…
March 26, 2010
Stephanie Mitchell