Author Reconstructing the tragedy of COVID from the epicenter of New York City’s outbreak Zooming in on a hard-hit corner of multi-cultural Queens, Dan Barry, Annie Correal and a New York Times team dared to get close and gain trust January 7, 2021 Thrilling journalism in face of a terrible year A version of this essay was published as the Storyboard newsletter on Jan. 1, 2020 A flip of a calendar page and, just like that, 2020 is over. Of course, it… January 5, 2021 Passports to authentic reporting: a foreign view, and a view through empathy At the end of this, a year that defies easy summary, we abandon attempts to try. Instead, here are two bits of lagniappe that came our way and we pass… December 31, 2020 “The mountains on the horizon …” — Tana French in her novel "The Searcher" December 29, 2020 A very few of my favorite fiction reads of 2020 It was a year of great journalism about hard things — and fiction that soothed along the way December 24, 2020 A go-to list of how-to story craft posts from 2020 While all Storyboard posts offer lessons from the masters of the craft, we offer a few practical stand-outs from the past year December 23, 2020 Practical tools, pro survival tips and poetry led Nieman Storyboard’s top posts of 2020 The list shows a range of interests in story subjects and approaches, and a strong desire to peek behind the curtains of storywork December 22, 2020 Journalists on the screen: a conflicted image The pop culture portrayal of reporters in movies and TV mirrors and shapes public perception of the press December 17, 2020 The surprising structure of a journey that inspired a surprising structure of a story Criss-cross bicycle trips through Kazakhstan by riders with palindromic names led to a story with a palindromic structure and palindromic word play December 16, 2020 “He was old enough to dance to a good beat but too young to know his favorite color.” A line from a 1993 story about gun violence in America has stayed with me all these years. It was by DeNeen Brown of The Washington Post, called “Getting Ready… December 11, 2020 Previous 1 … 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 … 245 Next
