Story Craft

When writing news requires a distance from neutrality to “tell it like it is”

Writing guru Roy Peter Clark analyzes an "astonishing lead," and unpacks the notions of objectivity and detachment in light of current events

By Roy Peter Clark • January 14, 2021

Broken windows in doors at the U.S. Capitol following a violent riot by pro-Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2020

A reporter’s search for “lost history” becomes a best-selling book

Release of "Icebound" by former Storyboard editor Andrea Pitzer is a chance to revisit the annotated narrative of her reporting journey

By Jacqui Banaszynski • January 13, 2021

Narrative News

Fifty years of Robert Caro’s reporting notes going public

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, famed for his meticulous reporting method, is giving a lifetime of notes to the New York Historical Society

By Jacqui Banaszynski • January 12, 2021

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