Narrative News

Discovering Eve Babitz from the opposite coast, and the aural and visual joy of Teenage Fanclub

Discovering Eve Babitz from the opposite coast, and the aural and visual joy of Teenage Fanclub

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,…
October 7, 2016
Kari Howard
Kerouac, Kristofferson and a new generation of journalists who love narrative

Kerouac, Kristofferson and a new generation of journalists who love narrative

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,…
September 30, 2016
Kari Howard
Digital innovations and storytelling: It's a chaotic world, but you can take advantage of the chaos

Digital innovations and storytelling: It’s a chaotic world, but you can take advantage of the chaos

We all know that journalism — and narrative journalism in particular — is in a profound moment of transition. But the million-dollar question is: How do we take advantage of…
September 26, 2016
Kari Howard
Pairing Robert Caro and Public Enemy: Does it get any better than that?

Pairing Robert Caro and Public Enemy: Does it get any better than that?

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,…
September 23, 2016
Kari Howard

Robert Caro and the lightbulb moment he had writing his first book, “The Power Broker”

When the historian Robert Caro spoke at the recent Pulitzer Centennial event hosted by the Nieman Foundation, one emotion was palpable: outrage.Fifty years after he wrote about the Roth family…
September 19, 2016
Kari Howard
Lin-Manuel Miranda gives some really cool tips on how to become a great storyteller

Lin-Manuel Miranda gives some really cool tips on how to become a great storyteller

You don’t have to be a “Hamilton” groupie to love this wonderful interview that Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski did recently with the blockbuster play’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda. (But…
September 16, 2016
Kari Howard
The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

Want an end-of-summer beach read that’ll turn heads faster than a Burkini ban? Consider Asma Lamrabet’s book, Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading, which has just been translated into English…
September 12, 2016
Jasmine Bager
Rashomon (the ice cream truck version), and a headline-happy dame called Florabel Muir

Rashomon (the ice cream truck version), and a headline-happy dame called Florabel Muir

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,…
September 9, 2016
Kari Howard
It's photography week here at Storyboard (including a cool one of Paul Newman)

It’s photography week here at Storyboard (including a cool one of Paul Newman)

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,…
September 2, 2016
Kari Howard
Following the Idler's Manifesto and listening to the Supremes on a summer's-end day

Following the Idler’s Manifesto and listening to the Supremes on a summer’s-end day

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,…
August 26, 2016
Kari Howard