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Required Reading, Session One

Required Reading, Session One

As the academic year gets underway, we decided to ask some top narrative journalism instructors what they’re assigning their students to study this semester and why. There are some tried-and-true…
September 8, 2014

3 (Stories) for 2 (Days)

It’s time for Storyboard’s three weekend picks. Here they are:In honor of Roger Federer’s gritty performance in Thursday’s U.S. Open quarterfinal, it seems fitting to re-read David Foster Wallace’s 2006…
September 5, 2014
Registration Open: Narrative Conference at Berkeley

Registration Open: Narrative Conference at Berkeley

Registration is now open for “The Latest in Longform,” the new, small-scale narrative journalism conference at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Organized by former Nieman narrative…
September 5, 2014

3 (Stories) for 3 (Days)

In between those end-of-summer barbecues and final visits to the beach, make time for some good storytelling this Labor Day holiday. Here are Storyboard’s three weekend picks:Writing for GQ in…
August 29, 2014

“I never intended to write a Starbucks story.”

Starbucks employee Jannette Navarro and her son, Gavin, were the subjects of a story by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor. (Reprinted with permission.) Few pieces of journalism — let…
August 25, 2014
3 (stories) for 2 (days): A weekend reading list

3 (stories) for 2 (days): A weekend reading list

Pam ColloffIt’s one of the last weekends of the summer and a good time to relax on the front porch with some of the recent noteworthy stories you may have…
August 22, 2014
"Stay away from your phone"

“Stay away from your phone”

Tom HuangTom Huang, the Sunday and enterprise editor at the Dallas Morning News, offered some good ideas for sharpening storytelling skills during a writing panel at last week’s Asian American…
August 19, 2014

Annotation: John Jeremiah Sullivan and “Upon This Rock”

[Editor’s note: John Jeremiah Sullivan‘s “Upon This Rock” is by now a modern classic of literary journalism: writer rents an RV, experiences a Christian rock festival (and certain revelations) with a…
August 1, 2014
Got 19 bucks? Take an online storytelling class with Susan Orlean.

Got 19 bucks? Take an online storytelling class with Susan Orlean.

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Susan Orlean breaks down a semester’s worth of storytelling instruction in a two-hour online video course for Skillshare.com. For $19, you get tips and insight on 14 topics, from…
July 30, 2014
Storytelling tips from the creative minds behind 'House of Cards,' 'The Newsroom,' PBS, The Moth and more

Storytelling tips from the creative minds behind ‘House of Cards,’ ‘The Newsroom,’ PBS, The Moth and more

“The most important element in a good story is conflict. It’s seeing two opposing forces collide with one another.” That’s from Beau Willimon, the showrunner for House of Cards, and he said it at…
July 25, 2014