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Kari Howard

@karihow

I'm the woman who left a dream job as Column One editor at the Los Angeles Times because I wanted to move to Maine. Go figure how happiness works. Former editor of Nieman Storyboard. I love music almost as much as (and sometimes more than) beautiful storytelling, so expect to see that here too.

Get your piping hot National Magazine Awards winners right here!

Get your piping hot National Magazine Awards winners right here!

The American Society of Magazine Editors held its annual Ellies awards gala today, and it was a big night for Mother Jones and The New York Times Magazine.Here’s a handy list of…
February 7, 2017
The future of journalism: amid all the fretting, having faith in the ability to move people

The future of journalism: amid all the fretting, having faith in the ability to move people

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
February 3, 2017
"I’m here to remind you today that great journalism can also find ordinary, regular people and find the extraordinary in what they do"

“I’m here to remind you today that great journalism can also find ordinary, regular people and find the extraordinary in what they do”

The focus of this week’s “The Future of News: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era” at Harvard was, understandably, the (pretty terrifying) landscape for journalists dealing with the new Trump administration and…
February 2, 2017

“What I can hear are occasional coyotes and a constant chorus of ‘Baby the Rain Must Fall’ from the jukebox in the Snake Room next door, and if I were also to hear those dying voices, those Midwestern voices drawn to this lunar country for some unimaginable atavistic rites, ‘rock of ages cleft for me,’ I think I would lose my own reason.”

Why is it great? This essay has a more famous line, which is being quoted a lot these days: “Then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is…
February 1, 2017
Lou: "You've got spunk." (Mary beams.) Lou: "I hate spunk." But her spunk made Mary Tyler Moore our role model

Lou: “You’ve got spunk.” (Mary beams.) Lou: “I hate spunk.” But her spunk made Mary Tyler Moore our role model

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
January 27, 2017

“A big pair of garden shears sat on the counter, as foreboding as Chekhov’s gun on the mantel.”

Why is it great? Even without context, this line is tremendous. Playfully riffing off Chekhov’s rule that if you introduce a gun in the first act, it absolutely must go off by…
January 25, 2017
A time of endings: a presidency, and a tree that held lifetimes of memories

A time of endings: a presidency, and a tree that held lifetimes of memories

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
January 20, 2017

“Frank Sinatra, holding a glass of bourbon in one hand and a cigarette in the other, stood in a dark corner of the bar between two attractive but fading blondes who sat waiting for him to say something.”

Why is it great? Yes, we deliberately launched this cool new feature with the first sentence of one of the most famous magazine articles of all time. Go big or…
January 18, 2017
Inaugurations of a different sort: the launch of two new features on Storyboard!

Inaugurations of a different sort: the launch of two new features on Storyboard!

In this week of a new president being sworn in, how about a couple of other inaugurations? We at Storyboard are launching two new features this week: an emailed newsletter, and…
January 18, 2017
In flames: journalism under fire, and the terrible beauty of wildfire photography

In flames: journalism under fire, and the terrible beauty of wildfire photography

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
January 13, 2017