Andrea Pitzer is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction that explore untold histories. She was the editor of Nieman Storyboard from 2009-2012,
from The Lazarus Effect Pictures 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 young man from swine flu—and makes it memorable. Read more
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 removal mining, ran on Yale Environment 360’s site … Read more
AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen Summer 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 … Read more
[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, England, Richard Dunlop-Walters hopes to give you … Read more
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 and narrative captions into a larger … Read more
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 to find her own way to respond to information challenges. Read more
What approaches are other countries taking to visual storytelling? How can storytellers thrive in places where journalism has been suppressed or simply doesn’t exist? Pondering these questions, we recently talked via Skype with Liza Faktor, director of the Moscow-based … Read more
When it comes to narrative multimedia, how can we reimagine storytelling from the ground up? What if templates for new models were right in front of us? In … Read more