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Paul Nicklen goes to extremes with Polar Obsession

Paul Nicklen goes to extremes with Polar Obsession

Just a few minutes talking with Paul Nicklen reveals his compulsion to educate the world. Ask a question about his polar adventures, and he segues quickly into arthropods, krill and…
March 17, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Paul Nicklen's Polar Obsession: "I had finally found a way to really connect with readers"

Paul Nicklen’s Polar Obsession: "I had finally found a way to really connect with readers"

Paul Nicklen, a photographer with National Geographic, was going to call his latest collection of images Bipolar Obsession on a lark, to reflect his trips to both poles. He settled…
March 17, 2010
Andrea Pitzer

Still images and storytelling in the digital era: more from the February Frontline/International Center of Photography symposium

[Second in a series of posts about a February meeting on the future of visual narrative sponsored by Frontline and the International Center of Photography.]With the decline of print newspapers, what will…
March 15, 2010
Andrea Pitzer

Who rubbed out Arthur Kasherman? Noir, the Star Tribune and a senior thesis combine for multimedia storytelling

A little shy of midnight on a January night in 1945, someone shot Minneapolis muckraker Arthur Kasherman as he sat with a friend in his Oldsmobile. Firing several more times,…
March 12, 2010
Andrea Pitzer

Wajahat Ali in McSweeney’s "Panorama": the American financial collapse as sitcom

When literary magazine McSweeney’s Quarterly jumped into the newspaper business for their winter issue, much of the buzz was about the concept. A literary quarterly does a newspaper? Layout was…
March 11, 2010
Andrea Pitzer

Walk on the wild side: animal stories that don’t stand up

When it comes to wildlife narratives, writer Bryan Christy wants more accountability from reporters.Christy wrote us in response to our Friday issue of the Narrative Digest, which featured coverage of a zoo, a…
March 8, 2010
Andrea Pitzer

Aminatta Forna interview on "The Last Vet"

We recently talked with Aminatta Forna about her Granta essay “The Last Vet,” which follows the work of Dr. Gudush Jalloh in his clinic at Freetown, Sierra Leone. Forna, who…
March 5, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Aminatta Forna's "The Last Vet": a dog's life

Aminatta Forna’s "The Last Vet": a dog’s life

Our latest Notable Narrative traces relations between humans and animals in the poorest country on earth. In “The Last Vet,” which appeared in the winter 2009 issue of Granta, writer…
March 4, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Chris Jones, Roger Ebert and the possibilities of online narrative (or “does this story ever end?”)

Chris Jones, Roger Ebert and the possibilities of online narrative (or “does this story ever end?”)

When it comes to writing profiles, Esquire’s Chris Jones is used to getting the last word. But a few weeks ago, when Jones worked his storytelling mojo on Roger Ebert,…
March 2, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Frontline and the International Center of Photography look at news narratives for a digital era

Frontline and the International Center of Photography look at news narratives for a digital era

How will digital opportunities change the way we tell stories? Earlier this month in New York City, a roundtable of journalists from major media outlets and community-oriented news organizations met…
February 26, 2010
Andrea Pitzer