Narrative News

Yesterday's Storyboard post was on "Finding Dolly Freed," an innovative approach to narrative journalism. For that story, we shared comments on the project from Tanja Aitamurto, a researcher at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, who did a…

Yesterday on the Storyboard, we looked at a new approach to narrative by focusing on Paige Williams' self-published project "Finding Dolly Freed." That post considered the possiblities for crowdfunded narrative journalism,…

When a journalist in love with a story gets turned down by magazine after magazine then sells a piece only to see it killed, what’s the next step? If you’re…

Calling all storytellers: Is there a story you’ve been dying to do, or even trying to write, but you know you need help? If so, the Mike Levine Writers Workshop…

I talked this week with Charles Pierce about the end-of-decade summary he did for Esquire. Pierce, who also works for The Boston Globe Magazine, talks (and perhaps writes—see end of…

Adrienne Mayor was a 2009 National Book Award finalist for her nonfiction book The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy. Mayor, a visiting scholar at…

Atlanta Magazine reporter Thomas Lake recently hosted an unusual narrative conference at his family’s homeplace in rural Ludowici, Georgia.The Auburn Chautauqua—named for the educational movement that brought cultural and entertainment…

Excerpts from a November interview with Gary Smith about his story “The Power of One,” which appeared in Sports Illustrated in September:Q: When did you first hear about Bonnie Richardson?…

What do Alma Guillermoprieto, Dexter Filkins, Susan Orlean, Rick Bragg and Anne Hull all have in common? Once upon a time, they all headed to Cambridge, Mass., as Nieman Fellows…

Blog posts and articles on narrative journalism pinged around the Halloween weekend like eyeballs at a zombie food fight—and according to Washingtonian.com, an actual fight broke out at The Washington…