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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”

For his piece in Outside magazine, the writer talks about the trickiness of reporting on climate change and the importance of pacing: "readers can feel when the story loses its…
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”

The multimedia series chronicling the global migrant crisis takes cues from audience behavior and uses those lessons to the story’s advantage
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

New York Times reporter Deborah Acosta follows a trail of cast-off slides, and engages with readers in real time to solve a mystery. So cool!
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”

The writer talks about creating moments of beauty, and the one thing you want to tell people about the story even if it has nothing to do with everything else.
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