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Spending time to report a meditation on the long tail of grief

Spending time to report a meditation on the long tail of grief

By Chip Scanlan When Rick Rojas became a national correspondent for The New York Times, a colleague told him to focus on the second word of his new title. As correspondents,…
The not-so-secret secret to winning a Pulitzer

The not-so-secret secret to winning a Pulitzer

By Jacqui BanaszynskiIt was a favorite diversion of mine, when I was teaching at the Missouri School of Journalism, to wander down the hall from my office to the newsroom…
Sex and cats: The 2022 people's choice awards

Sex and cats: The 2022 people’s choice awards

Analytics measure more and more in our lives. I receive a report every week sending me stats that show how Storyboard posts performed on eight different measures. Eight.Everything seems to…
How curiosity about cats inspired practical science stories

How curiosity about cats inspired practical science stories

By Philip KieferIn the last several weeks, Katherine J. Wu, a science writer at the Atlantic, has written a lot about cats. Her run started in late August with a…
How the WriterL came to be: The origin story of a narrative community

How the WriterL came to be: The origin story of a narrative community

EDITOR’S NOTE: “A Place Called WriterL” is a new collection of some of the listserv discussions about narrative journalism held in the late 1990s through the early 2010s. In a…
Print beat reporting vs documentary film drama: Pros and cons

Print beat reporting vs documentary film drama: Pros and cons

As the aerospace beat reporter for the Seattle Times, Dominic Gates is one of the world’s most knowledgeable journalists about the business of commercial aviation, and especially about the Boeing…
What reporters need from editors and editors need from reporters

What reporters need from editors and editors need from reporters

Moni Basu was a news reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) when she was sent to Baghdad to write about a Georgia-based military unit. It was 2005. The 48th…
Teaching (or learning) story craft? Storyboard is here to help

Teaching (or learning) story craft? Storyboard is here to help

We interrupt your syllabus prep with this important message:Consider Nieman Storyboard as a resource – and even publication destination – in your reporting, writing and journalism ethics courses.Storyboard is a…
Combing through clips, records and emotions for lessons from the past

Combing through clips, records and emotions for lessons from the past

As abortion rights in the United States grew more and more tenuous this summer, Los Angeles Times reporter Brittny Mejia grew curious about the history of those rights. That led…
Hacking and whacking the way to writing clarity — and pie

Hacking and whacking the way to writing clarity — and pie

An author and freelancer contemplates story craft as she tames and harvests the blackberry brambles on her land