Articles Joel Achenbach and the storytellers’ union Lots of the usual suspects are blogging and Tweeting about Joel Achenbach’s piece on the future of narrative journalism that ran in yesterday’s Washington Post. Some people have excerpted interesting… October 30, 2009 Andrea Pitzer The Moth’s Lea Thau on storytelling In some places, the spoken story is thriving. Last night in Boston, that 800-pound gorilla of live storytelling, the Moth, put on an event at the Tsai Performance Center. We decided… October 30, 2009 Andrea Pitzer Gangrey’s Ben Montgomery wants to grab you by the shirt collar [The second in an occasional series aimed at helping readers find online resources that focus on narrative journalism.] For more than four years, Gangrey.com has rounded up the best print… October 29, 2009 Andrea Pitzer Tom Shroder, former Washington Post Magazine editor, on dinner plates and well-done narrative This week, I had a chance to talk by phone with Tom Shroder, who took a buyout from The Washington Post earlier this year. Shroder specializes in long-form narrative stories… October 28, 2009 Andrea Pitzer Tommy Tomlinson: making words work for a living A few years ago an intern did a study of the writing that showed up in our newspaper. He ran our stories through a computer program that measured the reading… October 27, 2009 Tommy Tomlinson GQ and The New Yorker: two takes on brain damage from football For a primer on different approaches to storytelling, take a look at two recent narratives on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). In GQ, Jeanne Marie Laskas’ “Game Brain” follows a pathologist… October 26, 2009 Andrea Pitzer Hilton Als and Michael Jackson: do we really need another story? The best print narratives often take the form of either movie or metaphor. The first approach hinges on complete scenes, allowing a story to unfold as it would in film,… October 23, 2009 Andrea Pitzer Sexual Warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Our latest Notable Narrative comes from The Sydney Morning Herald. Photojournalist Kate Geraghty and reporter Jonathan Pearlman have assembled striking still images, video and reported summaries to document the systematic… October 23, 2009 Andrea Pitzer Meanwhile over at Nieman Lab… Josh Benton has a post about online narratives at our sister site, the Nieman Journalism Lab. Here’s an excerpt from it, describing a story that appeared on Gawker:“Thomas’ story is about… October 22, 2009 Andrea Pitzer Confessions of a podcaster Long-form, narrative radio—that’s the kind of radio many of us dreamed of doing when we started in the business, before so much of it, for reasons both economic and stylistic,… October 20, 2009 Clark Boyd Previous 1 … 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 … 244 Next
