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Ioana Burtea

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Ioana Burtea is a collaborator at DoR magazine in Bucharest, where she covers the justice system and politics, and writes personal essays. She has been part of the team that organizes The Power of Storytelling since 2015, specializing in communications for the conference.

A needle in time to heal pains of the past

A needle in time to heal pains of the past

It is widely believed that storytellers can turn almost anything into a good story, which gives them a bottomless well of topics. But even the celebrated ones, like Romanian-Moldovan writer…
November 22, 2019
The value of villains: Here's motivation for pursuing stories some might find off-putting

The value of villains: Here’s motivation for pursuing stories some might find off-putting

We all love a good hero story: Spiderman swooping in to save the day and the girl; Batman brooding towards a better tomorrow; The Avengers joining forces to save the…
November 7, 2019
The game-changing union of digital innovation and "emotional storytelling"

The game-changing union of digital innovation and “emotional storytelling”

The Financial Times is not typically linked with literary or narrative journalism. But Robin Kwong, head of digital delivery for the global news organization, is pushing to expand the approaches…
October 30, 2019
Mastering the awkward art of the interview

Mastering the awkward art of the interview

In the seven years since Max Linsky co-founded the Longform Podcast (with Evan Ratliff and Aaron Lammer), he has interviewed hundreds of storytelling luminaries: journalists, non-fiction writers and public figures.…
October 25, 2019