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Annotation Tuesday! Jessica Weisberg and The Atavist's "A Family Matter"

Annotation Tuesday! Jessica Weisberg and The Atavist’s “A Family Matter”

Jessica Weisberg believes that narrative journalism is heading toward a post-platform world where reporters pick the right medium for each story. If that’s the case, she’s been training for the…
January 3, 2017
"The Lives They Lived" in The New York Times, and the lives they lost in Aleppo

“The Lives They Lived” in The New York Times, and the lives they lost in Aleppo

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 23, 2016
Covering the last days of Aleppo: Even from afar, the heart breaks

Covering the last days of Aleppo: Even from afar, the heart breaks

The tears began streaming down my face when I woke up to the voice message from Mohammad Abu Rajab, a doctor in the besieged districts of east Aleppo.A couple of…
December 22, 2016
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”

In our Brave New Distributed World, journalists suffer from a disorienting lack of control.Lack of control over audiences, over time spent on page, over clicks… the list goes on. The…
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?”

Thirty years ago, a plane took off in Paraguay and smashed into a mountain in Bolivia. In the decades since, the accident left secrets trapped – and conspiracy theories festering…
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