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Allison Eck

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Allison Eck is a science journalist and digital associate producer for the PBS documentary series NOVA. She loves narrative, classical music, and coffeehouses.

Annotation Tuesday! Christopher Solomon and "The Detective of Northern Oddities"

Annotation Tuesday! Christopher Solomon and “The Detective of Northern Oddities”

Profiles are hard. Too often they’re drenched in the writer’s attempts to make the subject seem larger than life. But good profiles have the opposite effect: Through their honesty and…
February 28, 2017
The Washington Post crosses a storytelling frontier with "A New Age of Walls"

The Washington Post crosses a storytelling frontier with “A New Age of Walls”

In our Brave New Distributed World, journalists suffer from a disorienting lack of control.Lack of control over audiences, over time spent on page, over clicks… the list goes on. The…
December 20, 2016
Old meets new: The power of a Facebook Live experiment with Kodachrome

Old meets new: The power of a Facebook Live experiment with Kodachrome

One day this spring, New York Times reporter Deborah Acosta left her reporting up to serendipity.She’d followed a trail of Kodachrome slides to a huge bag full of striking images,…
November 15, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Jon Mooallem’s “The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community”

Annotation Tuesday! Jon Mooallem’s “The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community”

Every once in a while you read a story that feels so authentic and true, you wish you’d written it. That’s how I felt reading Jon Mooallem’s New York Times…
August 23, 2016
"Why's This So Good?" New York Magazine on "One Block" in fast-changing Brooklyn

“Why’s This So Good?” New York Magazine on “One Block” in fast-changing Brooklyn

New York Magazine’s “One Block” multimedia story.From the moment you load the page of New York Magazine’s award-winning multimedia story “One Block,” you feel like you’ve been invited to hang…
June 13, 2016