Story Craft

The Spotlight team looked for great characters and scenes to build their "audio-first" reporting project

The producer and former executive editor at Pushkin Industries shares insights on how to produce stories for podcasts and radio

Journalists, authors, producers, filmmakers, and Nieman Storyboard readers share more than 40 books that inspire their work.

In telling the story of a canoe race, Frank Bures had to find a way to blend firsthand accounts with archival news coverage.

Journalist and author Kim Cross on organizing your reporting and preparing for the process.

After years working in newsrooms, Kara Cutruzzula uses her journalism skills to tell stories for the stage.

"You can take the reader out of that present moment and plop them somewhere else, and it can be meaningful, it can be strategic."

You can learn a lot from a work of nonfiction by seeing whom the author thanks.

Journalists can find value in the old-school approach of handwritten letters to gain interviews and thank sources

What a New York Times editor’s father-son trip can teach us about personal essay writing