In “News to Me,” Laurie Hertzel writes about life as an ink-stained wretch during nearly 20 years at the Duluth News Tribune. Now books editor at the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, Hertzel is also an award-winning reporter … Read more
On the last day of the Mayborn Conference, Sports Illustrated’s Gary Smith read from and discussed “Shadow of a Nation,” his 1991 story about a Crow basketball player named Jonathan Takes Enemy. Smith has been at … Read more
[One in an occasional series of talks with people highlighting long-form journalism online. Prior posts in this series include a look at Gangrey.com.] From “a really little town” in Berkshire County, England, Richard Dunlop-Walters hopes to give you … Read more
What approaches are other countries taking to visual storytelling? How can storytellers thrive in places where journalism has been suppressed or simply doesn’t exist? Pondering these questions, we recently talked via Skype with Liza Faktor, director of the Moscow-based … Read more
When it comes to narrative multimedia, how can we reimagine storytelling from the ground up? What if templates for new models were right in front of us? In … Read more
Last month, I went to the International Journalism Festival in Italy for a panel on the future of story in the digital era. Since a potential benefit of the growing number of multimedia narratives is that visual stories often … Read more
Tomorrow, Washington Post national enterprise editor David Finkel will receive the 2010 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Good Soldiers, a bruising account of a U.S. Army battalion’s service in Iraq during 2007 and 2008. The $10,000 prize, … Read more
Congratulations to this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners, whose names were announced on Monday. In honor of the new recipients and finalists, we’d like to highlight a few of our past interviews and overviews with connections to nominated stories. Read more
[In our latest look at fine arts photographers who might have something to offer photojournalists, contributing editor Stephanie Mitchell considers the Supervisions project of Andreas Gefeller. Gefeller’s collapsed images and simultaneous use of exterior and interior shots offer exciting … Read more