Digital Storytelling

Unearthing L.A. through a tribal tongue

A team at The Los Angeles Times builds a multimedia narrative to explore an almost-lost language, and reimagine the region as it once was

By Kim Cross • July 10, 2019

UCLA linguist Pam Munro leads a monthly class in San Pedro where students are trying to revive the lost language of Los Angeles' Gabrielinos-Tongva tribe

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Narrative News

The LA Times resurrects Column One

A signature space for writers is revived and reimagined for the digital age (Creative risk encouraged. But nut graphs? Not so much)

By Linda Shaw • July 9, 2019

5 Questions

A hitchhiker’s guide to a galaxy of stories

Michael Paterniti meditates on hitting the road as a way to discover the wonders of the world, and the intimacies and risks of human connections

By Andrew Fedorov • July 5, 2019

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Not just a guilty pleasure: “Game of Thrones” holds essential writing lessons

By Roy Peter Clark
June 5, 2019

Esteemed writing teacher Roy Peter Clark shares the 12 things he learned (or re-learned) about storytelling from the epic HBO series

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About a bear: The story behind the story of “The Loneliest Polar Bear”

By Julia Shipley
April 19, 2019

How The Oregonian tracked the uncertain fate of an abandoned bear cub and created a multi-media phenomenon that informed other projects

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Raw first stories from the Appalachian Trail

By Greg Bowers
February 28, 2019

Earl V. Shaffer's original journals reveal a treasure trove that inspired a book, and generations of hikers — and writers — to come

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A prescient voice speaks for the Earth

By Erik Ness
February 5, 2019

Seventy years after "A Sand County Almanac," Aldo Leopold's message grows in relevance

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Finding a narrative in “our most urgent national conversation:” the one about guns

By Julia Shipley
October 23, 2018

How three reporters, a national news chain and 21 strangers who met to talk became a 5,000-word tale with character, intimacy, structure and drama

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A conversation with Nathaniel Rich on “Losing Earth,” human inertia and storytelling as “a moral act”

By Rebecca Boyle
September 21, 2018

In the longest single piece ever published by The New York Times Magazine, the author takes on a crucible decade in the battle against climate change

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Can you say … Thanks, and we miss you?

By Matt Tullis
July 13, 2018

On Mister Rogers, Tom Junod and the art of reverence

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Writing through a whiteout: David Grann and “The White Darkness”

By Steve Oney
March 13, 2018

In his New Yorker piece on an explorer following Shackleton's footsteps in Antarctica, the reporter struggled through his own writing blizzard

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Notable Narrative: Jack Hitt and the birth of live-action TV news in “What Goes Up”

By Katia Savchuk
December 12, 2017

For Epic magazine, he writes about a daredevil helicopter pilot for a Phoenix station who "kept breaking the fourth wall of journalism by beating the cops"

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Notable Narrative: The Cincinnati Enquirer’s stunning “Seven Days of Heroin”

By Katia Savchuk
September 25, 2017

A writer and editor talk about wrangling 60 staffers and a deluge of copy -- and creating a riveting portrait of the human face of the opioid epidemic

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Notable Narrative: The Marshall Project’s Maurice Chammah and “The Accusation”

By Katia Savchuk
September 12, 2017

The reporter talks about his piece, published jointly with Esquire, on a recanted allegation of child sex abuse that had sent a father to prison

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The late Alex Tizon and “My Family’s Slave”: his first memory, and his last byline

By Jacqui Banaszynski
September 5, 2017

The Atlantic story, published just weeks after his death, drew a firestorm of criticism; a Pulitzer winner and friend examines the craft, and the loss

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