Digital Storytelling

Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 1)

Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 1)

Storyboard recently talked about visual storytelling and intimacy with two very different journalists: an independent 30-year veteran and a newsroom staff photographer just two years out of graduate school. Tomorrow,…

Statistics as story: narrative journalism by the numbers?

Earlier this year, at the first TED conference in India, Hans Rosling predicted the year and month that India and China will overtake the West and return Asia to world…

Visual narrative and still photography: is a picture worth a thousand words?

This week, Michael Zhang (@PetaPixel) tweeted a link to this striking photo gallery of the Athens riots, which is composed of AP, AFP and Getty images. I was particularly intrigued by…
The Wichita Eagle uses narrative to connect to local, larger audience

The Wichita Eagle uses narrative to connect to local, larger audience

This weekend, The Wichita Eagle started an interesting storytelling experiment. Well, actually the experiment started a few weeks ago, when they posted a trailer for an upcoming narrative project on…
CBC Dispatches (Part 3): writing for radio

CBC Dispatches (Part 3): writing for radio

[This is Part 3 in our series stealing the best tips from the audio storytelling handbook of the CBC's Dispatches radio program. Parts 1 and 2 ran earlier this week.]We at Dispatches have seen thousands…

CBC Dispatches (Part 2): composing with sound

[This is Part 2 in our series stealing the best tips from the audio storytelling handbook of the CBC's Dispatches radio program. Part 1 ran yesterday.]The following are things you should start to figure out…
CBC Dispatches: Sounding out your story (Part 1)

CBC Dispatches: Sounding out your story (Part 1)

Dispatches is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio News weekly show of documentaries, essays, interviews and reports from around the world. Most are by traveling freelancers. Many are from CBC reporters…

The end of the line for the Lone Ranger? A how-to guide for narrative collaboration

When The Roanoke Times “Age of Uncertainty” won Documentary Project of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, it wasn’t the narrative writing or the photography or the Web…
Comic book news: survival tales (part 3)

Comic book news: survival tales (part 3)

[Part 1 of this series looked at the turn toward individuals telling true stories via comics, while Part 2 illustrated how comics began to use a subjective vantage point to…
Comic book news: Joe Sacco draws on history (part 2)

Comic book news: Joe Sacco draws on history (part 2)

Part 2 of a look at graphic narrative journalism [Part 1 discussed how “comics journalism” rose from the underground and independent comics scene to combine conventions of the traditional comic…