Author

Andrea Pitzer

@andreapitzer

<a href="https://andreapitzer.com/bio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Andrea Pitzer</strong></a> is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction that explore untold histories. She was the editor of Nieman Storyboard from 2009-2012,

Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 2)

Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 2)

Storyboard recently talked about visual storytelling and intimacy with two very different journalists: an independent 30-year veteran and a newsroom staff photographer just two years out of graduate school.Yesterday, we…
December 23, 2009
Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 1)

Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 1)

Storyboard recently talked about visual storytelling and intimacy with two very different journalists: an independent 30-year veteran and a newsroom staff photographer just two years out of graduate school. Tomorrow,…
December 22, 2009
Adrienne Mayor on putting the story in history

Adrienne Mayor on putting the story in history

Adrienne Mayor was a 2009 National Book Award finalist for her nonfiction book The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy. Mayor, a visiting scholar at…
December 19, 2009

Targeting the Good Cell

Here’s a narrative challenge: recount a quarter-century of lab experiments conducted by several investigative teams working separately from Kyoto to California. Now make the story urgent and give it a sense…
December 18, 2009

Statistics as story: narrative journalism by the numbers?

Earlier this year, at the first TED conference in India, Hans Rosling predicted the year and month that India and China will overtake the West and return Asia to world…
December 15, 2009
Mother Jones' Dave Gilson: There's a riot goin' on

Mother Jones’ Dave Gilson: There’s a riot goin’ on

Dave GilsonA scene from the opening of a prime-time cable series? Nope—it's the lead from a story in last month’s Mother Jones. Dave Gilson’s piece narrates a mock riot in…
December 14, 2009

Visual narrative and still photography: is a picture worth a thousand words?

This week, Michael Zhang (@PetaPixel) tweeted a link to this striking photo gallery of the Athens riots, which is composed of AP, AFP and Getty images. I was particularly intrigued by…
December 11, 2009
High Country News' Michelle Nijhuis on living with an uneasy ghost

High Country News’ Michelle Nijhuis on living with an uneasy ghost

I was recently taken with a piece that ran earlier this year in High Country News. Written by Michelle Nijhuis, “Township 13 South, Range 92 West, Section 35” explores the idea…
December 9, 2009
The Wichita Eagle uses narrative to connect to local, larger audience

The Wichita Eagle uses narrative to connect to local, larger audience

This weekend, The Wichita Eagle started an interesting storytelling experiment. Well, actually the experiment started a few weeks ago, when they posted a trailer for an upcoming narrative project on…
December 8, 2009

Lost in the Waves

What could be more dramatic than the story of a father and son swept nine miles out to sea, floating overnight together and then alone, uncertain of survival? In the…
December 4, 2009