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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
National Magazine Award finalist Oliver Broudy on morbid curiosity and narrative as burlesque

National Magazine Award finalist Oliver Broudy on morbid curiosity and narrative as burlesque

We talked this week with Men’s Health contributing editor Oliver Broudy about his December 2009 story “Dead Man Driving,” which recreates the events leading up to the death of Adam…
March 25, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
“Bottoming Out” from the Las Vegas Sun: citizen journalism folded into multimedia storytelling

“Bottoming Out” from the Las Vegas Sun: citizen journalism folded into multimedia storytelling

When Las Vegas Sun staffer Scott Den Herder saw Tony McDew at an area nightclub last year, he could tell by McDew’s “outrageous” 1980s outfit and high-top fade haircut that…
March 22, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Duckrabbit's Benjamin Chesterton on the Blindfolded Photographer

Duckrabbit’s Benjamin Chesterton on the Blindfolded Photographer

[We recently met Benjamin Chesterton at the Frontline/ICP symposium, where he participated in a discussion on the future of visual narrative. He had some strong opinions about photojournalists and storytelling, and we thought our…
March 18, 2010
Benjamin Chesterton