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The Washington Post crosses a storytelling frontier with "A New Age of Walls"

The Washington Post crosses a storytelling frontier with “A New Age of Walls”

The multimedia series chronicling the global migrant crisis takes cues from audience behavior and uses those lessons to the story’s advantage
December 20, 2016
A week of the invisible made visible: the Russian hack of the U.S. election, and a sinister gas leak. Oh, plus... Christmas!

A week of the invisible made visible: the Russian hack of the U.S. election, and a sinister gas leak. Oh, plus… Christmas!

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
December 16, 2016
5 Questions: Nathaniel Rich and "The Invisible Catastrophe"

5 Questions: Nathaniel Rich and “The Invisible Catastrophe”

Tomorrow’s journalists exploring the masters of today Jacqui Banaszynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who now is an endowed Knight Chair  professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Last semester,…
December 15, 2016
Now might be a good time to reread a few great stories about Putin, don't you think?

Now might be a good time to reread a few great stories about Putin, don’t you think?

With high-profile stories in The Washington Post and The New York Times reporting that Russia tampered with the U.S. presidential election and Twitter ablaze with references to “The Manchurian Candidate”…
December 12, 2016
5(ish) Questions: Peter Frick-Wright and "What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?"

5(ish) Questions: Peter Frick-Wright and “What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?”

The Outside magazine writer climbed to a 20,000-foot glacier to try to find out why a plane crashed mysteriously 31 years ago, and wrote a story that's Sherlock Holmes meets…
December 12, 2016
"The Age of Innocence" versus the age of innocence lost

“The Age of Innocence” versus the age of innocence lost

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
December 9, 2016
Why's This So Good? Mark Seal and "The Man in the Rockefeller Suit"

Why’s This So Good? Mark Seal and “The Man in the Rockefeller Suit”

In his Vanity Fair piece, the writer takes us on a suspenseful journey through the many identities of the man who conned his way to the top of American society
December 8, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Monroe and "Have You Ever Thought About Killing Someone?"

Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Monroe and “Have You Ever Thought About Killing Someone?”

The writer talks about her disturbing story for Matter on a man who said he wanted to be killed, the teen who took him up on it -- and her…
December 6, 2016
The theme of the week is death, so it's time to listen to a little Al Green and feel better

The theme of the week is death, so it’s time to listen to a little Al Green and feel better

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
December 2, 2016
BuzzFeed News' Albert Samaha and a modern-day lynching in Mississippi

BuzzFeed News’ Albert Samaha and a modern-day lynching in Mississippi

Tomorrow’s journalists exploring the masters of today Jacqui Banaszynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who now is an endowed Knight Chair  professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Last semester,…
December 1, 2016