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From the Editor

A historic week, and Storyboard live onstage

Kurt Streeter on the fine art of hanging out. Plus: Share your favorite stories of 2026

Mark Armstrong

From the Editor

Six journalists on reporting, writing, and getting along with your editors

On flattery and the newsroom’s unsung heroes: copy editors. Plus: Understanding rejection, ambition, and power dynamics in our work

Mark Armstrong

Story Annotations

Annotation: How to write a nuanced portrait of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, 23 years after his death

Journalist Jamie Fisher interviews 140 people to get to the heart of an artist’s life in ‘Nobody Broke Your Heart’

Trevor Pyle

Podcast

Journalist Wudan Yan on the importance of fact-checking as ‘peer review’

The founder of the fact-checking agency Factual discusses how journalists can organize their reporting to work collaboratively with fact-checkers

Mark Armstrong

Nieman Storyboard’s guides on storytelling

Story Craft

The art of pitching: How to sell your book or story idea

Editors from The Atavist, Wired, and more share what they’re looking for in a story or book proposal.

Story Craft

How to craft a narrative: Everything you need to know

A four-part series on the key elements of nonfiction storytelling, including scene, character and endings.

Lauren Kessler

Story Craft

The Nieman Storyboard guide to books on storytelling

Journalists, authors, producers, filmmakers, and Nieman Storyboard readers share more than 40 books that inspire their work.

Mallary Tenore Tarpley

Story Craft

How to interview for narrative vs. news

From broad and open-ended to narrow and specific: Journalist Kim Cross’s five-part series on interviewing for narrative nonfiction.

Kim Cross

Strictly Q&A

Podcast Strictly Q&A

New York Times journalist Kurt Streeter on ‘the fine art of hanging out’ (live at SFJ)

The New York Times national correspondent on showing up and building trust with your subjects

Emilia Wisniewski

Podcast Strictly Q&A

Journalist Wudan Yan on the importance of fact-checking as ‘peer review’

The founder of the fact-checking agency Factual discusses how journalists can organize their reporting to work collaboratively with fact-checkers

Mark Armstrong

Author and editor Sari Botton on giving yourself permission to write personal essays

Podcast Strictly Q&A

Story Annotations

Annotation: How ESPN's Seth Wickersham followed an NFL team’s playoff run from the inside

The award-winning sports journalist and author of the new anthology ‘Be on That Hill’ parlays his years of experience into an immersive profile of Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton

Brendan O'Meara

Story Annotations

Annotation: Yiyun Li reconsiders the language of loss in her Pulitzer-winning memoir, ‘Things in Nature Merely Grow’

The acclaimed author discusses how words like “grief” fail when writing about the loss of her teenage son James

Mallary Tenore Tarpley

Story Annotations

Song Annotation: ‘Cold Missouri Waters’

In a song about a wildfire, songwriter James Keelaghan narrates a story that took Norman Maclean a whole book to tell

Kim Cross

Story Craft

From the Editor Story Craft

Six journalists on reporting, writing, and getting along with your editors

On flattery and the newsroom's unsung heroes: copy editors. Plus: Understanding rejection, ambition, and power dynamics in our work

Mark Armstrong

From the Editor

Memes and manipulation in storytelling

‘You Can See Everything’ redefines documentaries. Plus: Jamie Fisher interviews 140 people for her biography of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith

Mark Armstrong

From the Editor

What does it mean to fact-check a story?

Wudan Yan on the future of fact-checking in journalism. Plus: Advice for freelancing, and re-introducing yourself to your audience

Mark Armstrong

A historic week, and Storyboard live onstage

Six journalists on reporting, writing, and getting along with your editors

Annotation: How to write a nuanced portrait of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, 23 years after his death

Journalist Wudan Yan on the importance of fact-checking as ‘peer review’

Nieman Storyboard’s guides on storytelling

The art of pitching: How to sell your book or story idea

How to craft a narrative: Everything you need to know