Journalists use technology to tell stories, but technology has its own stories to tell, sometimes the very opposite of the ones we expect. In this series of articles, I’ll explore…

While it may not spark a revolution in newsrooms, Michael Hastings' narrative profile of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal in this week’s Rolling Stone has already made history. “The Runaway General,”…

from The Lazarus EffectPictures pack a punch. And so continuing in the tradition of our “What we’re reading” posts, one of the things we’ll be doing here at Nieman Storyboard…

We spoke by phone this week with Atlanta magazine senior editor Thomas Lake about his story, “The Golden Boy and the Invisible Army,” our latest Notable Narrative. Lake, who also…

Our latest Notable Narrative conjures a fairy tale from mundane medical tragedy. Atlanta magazine reporter Thomas Lake takes a story that would normally be a statistic—the death of a healthy…

This spring Leveling Appalachia won a Best of Photojournalism prize from the National Press Photographers Association in the category of documentary film for a website. The story, a look at mountaintop…

AP Photo/Muhammed MuheisenSummer is upon us! Well, actually it’s kind of cold and gray outside here, but as you, our imaginary beachgoer, break out the sunblock and pack the Cheetos…

[One in an occasional series of talks with people highlighting long-form journalism online. Prior posts in this series include a look at Gangrey.com.]From “a really little town” in Berkshire County,…

Here at Storyboard, we've written before on the question of words and captions in relation to photos, so we were intrigued by Pictory, an online photography site that assembles images…

When you think of using databases to plan a story—if you ever think of such a thing—do your eyes glaze over? Not if you’re Megan Prelinger. But then Prelinger tends…