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From research to story: more from the BIO 2011 conference

A bevy of biographers gathered in May in Washington, D.C., at the second annual Compleat Biographer Conference to discuss how to chase down subjects and make their lives into great stories.…
June 2, 2011
Ben Montgomery explores a mystery: "This is a story about grief"

Ben Montgomery explores a mystery: "This is a story about grief"

Yesterday our Editors’ Roundtable looked at “When a diver goes missing, a deep cave is scene of a deeper mystery,” by Ben Montgomery. An enterprise reporter at the St. Petersburg Times,…
May 5, 2011
Eliza Griswold on religion, violence and reporting

Eliza Griswold on religion, violence and reporting

We spoke last week with Eliza Griswold, winner of the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for “The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam.” In…
May 3, 2011
Oliver Broudy on modern saints, magazine writing and crossing the border to Kindle Singles

Oliver Broudy on modern saints, magazine writing and crossing the border to Kindle Singles

Seeing the gaggle of outlets now dedicated to digital long-form (The Atavist, Kindle Singles and Byliner Originals, just for starters), I wanted to talk to a narrative journalist who had written…
April 21, 2011
David Barstow on being fair, bearing witness and “doing something bigger with the story”

David Barstow on being fair, bearing witness and “doing something bigger with the story”

We spoke this week with The New York Times' David Barstow, who wrote and helped report our latest Notable Narrative, “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours.” The project, a fine-grained look at…
March 11, 2011
March Editors' Roundtable: Mother Jones looks at rape in Haiti

March Editors’ Roundtable: Mother Jones looks at rape in Haiti

The narrative for discussion in the second installment of our Editors’  Roundtable is “Welcome to Haiti's Reconstruction Hell” by Mac McClelland. Appearing in Mother Jones earlier this year, the story was written after…
March 3, 2011
Harvey Smith on environmental storytelling and embedding narrative: "It has to be possible to miss some things to make finding them meaningful"

Harvey Smith on environmental storytelling and embedding narrative: "It has to be possible to miss some things to make finding them meaningful"

In a bit of serendipitous surfing last fall, I stumbled onto “What Happened Here?” a presentation by Harvey Smith and Matthias Worch at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San…
January 14, 2011
Kathleen Gallagher and Mark Johnson on medical reporting, the future of genetics, and how to keep your story going in the event you get hit by a beer truck

Kathleen Gallagher and Mark Johnson on medical reporting, the future of genetics, and how to keep your story going in the event you get hit by a beer truck

We talked this week with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters Kathleen Gallagher and Mark Johnson about their recent project “One in a Billion,” our latest Notable Narrative. The three-day serial tells…
January 7, 2011
Nonny de la Peña on "Gone Gitmo," Stroome and the future of interactive storytelling

Nonny de la Peña on "Gone Gitmo," Stroome and the future of interactive storytelling

I recently talked about journalism and storytelling with Nonny de la Peña, who is a senior research fellow in immersive journalism at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communications…
January 3, 2011

Public Radio International's Lisa Mullins on interviewing for story

Lisa Mullins, chief anchor and senior producer for Public Radio International’s “The World,” spoke with Storyboard by phone last week about taking a narrative approach to interviews. We included some…
December 18, 2010