Author Mark Boal profiles "The Kill Team" Our latest Notable Narrative, “The Kill Team,” recounts a series of killings in Afghanistan by American soldiers, one of whom recently pleaded guilty to three counts of murder.Rolling Stone has… March 30, 2011 Meanwhile, back at the ranch, part 2: setting [This second installment in a four-part series on writing historical narratives focuses on the importance of setting and scenes in nonfiction storytelling. The series is based on a lecture given by… March 28, 2011 Meanwhile, back at the ranch, part 1 [This four-part series on storytelling and historical narratives is based on a talk given at Vanderbilt University in February 2011.]Half a century ago, the novelist and physicist C.P. Snow wrote… March 25, 2011 What we're reading: underground art, sleepy shrinks and killings by a CIA contractor in Pakistan This week's installment is a grab bag, offering both comedy (a courtroom debate over what exactly a copying machine is) and tragedy (the tsunami in Japan). These stories' styles also… March 22, 2011 "Long-form is absolutely not dead": insights from ProPublica, "Frontline," The New Yorker and "This American Life" The New School and ProPublica co-hosted a panel on long-form journalism last night at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium in New York City. David Remnick of the The New Yorker, Ira… March 17, 2011 The future of long-form journalism: Frontline's Aronson-Rath and ProPublica's Engelberg on multimedia collaboration It’s always “The Future of Long-form Week” here at Nieman Storyboard, but we’re excited to note that this week, some key storytellers from different media are getting together in New York… March 16, 2011 What we’re watching: a town washed away, satellite images and covering conflict With Muammar Qaddafi's efforts to suppress armed rebellion in Libya and the events unleashed by the massive earthquake in Japan on Friday, it’s a wonder that those of us not involved… March 14, 2011 David Barstow on being fair, bearing witness and “doing something bigger with the story” We spoke this week with The New York Times' David Barstow, who wrote and helped report our latest Notable Narrative, “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours.” The project, a fine-grained look at… March 11, 2011 Dissecting disaster: "nine precious minutes" on the Deepwater Horizon Our latest Notable Narrative, “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours,” tracks events leading up to the inferno that destroyed a Gulf oil rig in April of 2010. This tick-tock from The New York… March 10, 2011 What we're reading: death in all its guises A week into March, we're eager for spring, but the narrative stories we've unearthed lately consistently offer up darker themes that go against the promise of the season. We've rounded… March 8, 2011 Previous 1 … 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 … 240 Next
