Allison Eck

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

By Allison Eck• Story Annotations• February 28, 2017

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 attention to perhaps mundane detail — and, as Outside Magazine contributing editor … Read more

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

By Allison Eck• Digital Storytelling• December 20, 2016

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 most any digital reporter can do is hope that … Read more

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

By Allison Eck• Digital Storytelling• November 15, 2016

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, seemingly abandoned in a trash bin in New York … Read more

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

By Allison Eck• Story Annotations• August 23, 2016

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 Magazine piece about a self-professed “idler” named Gavin Pretor-Pinney … Read more

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

By Allison Eck• Why's This So Good?• June 13, 2016

New York Magazine's "One Block" multimedia story. From the moment you load the page of New York Magazine’s award-winning multimedia story … Read more

About Allison Eck

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

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

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

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

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