Search results for “Nieman+conference+on+narrative+journalism” Showing 234 results Colin Harrison and Sam Gwynne on the editor-writer partnership, going deep and the difference between a subject and a story In yet more goodness from July's Mayborn Conference, we're happy to post this conversation between Colin Harrison, who is currently senior editor at Scribner, and S.C. "Sam" Gwynne, author of "Empire of… September 21, 2010 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Flow Nothing prepares you for your first time. You’re out with someone, maybe a date, maybe just friends, everything’s fine, and then he whips it out, right in front of you… July 23, 2010 Katy Butler on Greek tragedy, reader comments and how "scenes keep you close to the bone truth of things" We recently spoke with Katy Butler about her New York Times Magazine piece, “What Broke My Father’s Heart,” our latest Notable Narrative. Butler, whose work has appeared in magazines such as… July 6, 2010 Liza Faktor on Objective Reality and visual storytelling: “I have never been this excited by technology in my life” 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… June 1, 2010 The importance of words in multimedia storytelling Journalists are told to write short for the Web. The online audience wants information, not a lovely phrase or a rousing metaphor. “On the Web, people want to move quickly,” says Hoa Loranger,… April 21, 2010 In defense of ignorance: Rob Nixon at the MLA on making room for readers Can less be more? The value of ignorance came up this week at the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia during a session titled “Literature and Journalism.” Rob Nixon, of… December 31, 2009 Picturing community: an interview with Los Angeles Times’ photographer Francine Orr Photographer Francine Orr had experience reporting on poverty and humanitarian crises around the globe. But while working on “Gimme Shelter,” an audio slide show about L.A.-area homeless people living under… December 29, 2009 Endings [Note: The following is an edited transcript from a talk at the 2001 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. It first appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of Nieman Reports.]The ending… October 13, 2006 First Person Singular: It's not just about you Getting stuck next to a compulsive talker is one of the worst things that can happen at a dinner party or on a long bus ride. Even worse: the self-centered… June 28, 2006 The Persuasive Narrator We call lots of things “stories” in American journalism, but very few of them are true narrative storytelling. Most journalistic accounts are reports, whose primary purpose is to pass along information… May 23, 2006 Previous 1 … 20 21 22 23 24 Next
