Articles 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 Abducted in Afghanistan: David Rohde’s story This weekend, The New York Times began running a five-part series from reporter David Rohde, who was kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2008 and remained in captivity for seven months and… October 19, 2009 Andrea Pitzer How Twitter’s @longreads helps readers cozy up to digital narratives [The first in an occasional series aimed at helping readers find other online resources that focus on narrative journalism.] Plenty of people are worried about the future of long-form journalism.… October 16, 2009 Andrea Pitzer The New York Times Magazine and the moral essay Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine included a personal essay from novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, “Against Meat,” which recounts his struggles with whether or not to eat (or teach his… October 15, 2009 Andrea Pitzer Narrative reporting and the danger of the single story Current Nieman fellow Hopewell Rugoho-Chin’ono recently pointed out this striking TED talk from July, in which Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks on the danger of letting one narrative define… October 14, 2009 Andrea Pitzer The future of print narratives The following comments are taken from a talk given by Oregonian reporter Tom Hallman on September 25, 2009, at the American Association of Sunday and Feature editors. Hallman won the… October 13, 2009 Tom Hallman Previous 1 … 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 … 246 Next
