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Narrative journalism around the world: Argentina, Romania, Belgium and the Netherlands

Narrative journalism around the world: Argentina, Romania, Belgium and the Netherlands

America tends to get credit for adding narrative journalism to the literary canon. And there’s no doubt that the combination of timely reporting and timeless writing took on new and…
March 8, 2012
All the narrative edification you need: our 2012 conference roundup

All the narrative edification you need: our 2012 conference roundup

It’s time for our annual almost-spring listing of 2012 writing events and conferences. From California to Texas and Boston, there are options to work on your writing or storytelling skills…
February 21, 2012
Tidbits from this year's Mayborn Conference: how deep is too deep?

Tidbits from this year's Mayborn Conference: how deep is too deep?

Hanging out at orgies with people who smuggle lizards in their pants. Befriending a convict with an Anne Frank tattoo. Doing drugs with a source. You never know what you’ll…
July 25, 2011
Life in the cave: highlights from Boston University’s “The Rebirth of Storytelling” conference

Life in the cave: highlights from Boston University’s “The Rebirth of Storytelling” conference

What does it take to make a great story? Boston University’s “The Power of Narrative” conference, held on campus April 29-30, aimed to offer some insights. The event included the kind…
May 10, 2011
Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration, structuring an epic narrative and the challenges of writing nonfiction

Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration, structuring an epic narrative and the challenges of writing nonfiction

Continuing the spring flurry of awards, Columbia University and the Nieman Foundation announced last week that the 2011 Mark Lynton History Prize will be awarded to Isabel Wilkerson for her…
April 4, 2011
Awards season begins: narrative highlights from ASNE and Polk awards; announcement of CRMA finalists

Awards season begins: narrative highlights from ASNE and Polk awards; announcement of CRMA finalists

Looking for some quality narrative journalism you might not have noticed before? As awards season for newspapers and magazines gets underway, we wanted to share links to stories recognized for…
February 23, 2011

Richard Just on long-form journalism and online cover stories at The New Republic

Last week, The New Republic began posting "online cover stories" on its website. Announcing the move, the magazine's new editor, Richard Just, wrote about his belief  that "beautifully crafted, methodically…
January 25, 2011

The Justice League of narrative? Even better: it's the roster of our new Editors' Roundtable

Earlier this week, we announced a new offering on Storyboard – an Editors’ Roundtable, in which a stellar group of editors will collectively analyze a piece of narrative journalism. We invited…
January 21, 2011

Robert Caro, Stacy Schiff, Diane Ackerman and more: narrative conferences and workshops in 2011

Was one of your resolutions in 2011 to become a better storyteller? If so, here are a few conferences and workshops slated for the coming months that can probably teach…
January 20, 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