Digital Storytelling

Every August when I was young, my mother would take me to the store to buy some back-to-school notebooks. Maybe some pencils. Sometimes even a plastic pencil sharpener.This was a…

The writer behind the popular Spitalfields Life blog talks about intimacy, forming a community and a deep love for the East End

When Mexican director Guillermo del Toro won his best directing Oscar recently for “Shape of Water,” he said: “I am an immigrant. The greatest thing our art does is to…

The fog of war is especially thick in Syria, where access is nearly impossible for foreign journalists and accounts of the war often reach the outside world via social media.…

For Dena Takruri, the power of journalism rests on its ability to give voice to the voiceless.[pq]”I’ve always been upfront about my identity and background, and it’s shaped who I…

In our Brave New Distributed World, journalists suffer from a disorienting lack of control.Lack of control over audiences, over time spent on page, over clicks… the list goes on. The…

One day this spring, New York Times reporter Deborah Acosta left her reporting up to serendipity.She’d followed a trail of Kodachrome slides to a huge bag full of striking images,…

What does Shakespeare have to do with clickbait? How much in common did ancient indigenous peoples have with the Twitter community? Was Dante’s “Inferno” the original “explainer” story?Amy O’LearyThe surprising…

If coming off a long holiday weekend weren’t hard enough, there’s another reason this Monday may seem rougher than usual. There’s no new “Serial” episode to talk about.Gabe BullardThe hugely…

Editor’s note: In her third and final dispatch from the recent Third Coast audio storytelling conference, radio producer Julia Barton examines a dilemma  journalists in every medium face: how to create good narrative…