Author The journalist and Dr. V To be a journalist on Twitter in the past four days has meant taking part, one way or another, in one of the more heated story dissections in recent memory.… January 19, 2014 Meet the Storytellers: The Nieman Class of 2014 Every fellow who comes through Lippmann House is a storyteller of a sort, whether with words or visuals or data or sound. The Class of 2014 arrived from across journalistic… January 16, 2014 “Why’s this so good?” No. 88: Katherine Boo and the marriage cure Katharine Boo begins her 2003 New Yorker piece “The Marriage Cure” with one of my all-time favorite opening lines:One July morning last year in Oklahoma City, in a public-housing project… January 14, 2014 David Remnick, on what it takes (the Future of Digital Longform, Part 3) Part 1 of our recap of the Tow Center’s recent Future of Digital Longform conference, at Columbia University, included Emily Bell talking with Joe Sexton about the impact of “Snow… January 10, 2014 Interactive siren song + “How are you making money?” (The Future of Digital Longform, Part 2) In Part 1 of our recap of the Tow Center’s Future of Digital Longform conference, Emily Bell and Joe Sexton talked about when (and to what extent) a story should be snowfalled,… January 9, 2014 The future of digital longform, Part 1: “Snow Fall” (yep, that again — worth it) + poetry + how we read Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism hosted a daylong Future of Digital Longform conference recently, and it was full of good stuff. (They kindly invited Storyboard to appear on… January 7, 2014 “Why’s this so good?” — the music edition From our “Why’s this so good?” archives, a handful of great reads on music by Lil Wayne, James Brown, Britney Spears and Sly Stone, deconstructed for craft and significance by the… January 3, 2014 Roundup: 2013 Best of Narrative Storytelling in Journalism For our second annual Best of Narrative roundup, our selectors reported an anguishing task: so many great pieces, so few berths. Enjoy these top picks from 2013. And Happy New… December 30, 2013 Top 10 Top 10 Lists — storytelling edition Because why not a list of lists? Ten* worth the storyteller's time:1) “130 years of must-read stories for digital journalists: five lessons from 1851-1981,” by Abraham Hyatt, editor of the… December 20, 2013 Best of Storyboard 2013 — reader favorites We’ve configured this year’s Best of Storyboard roundup by category* this year, as opposed to ranking them by readership, though we’ll say that in terms of pageviews the Gay Talese/Elon… December 19, 2013 Previous 1 … 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 … 240 Next
