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5(ish) Questions: Inara Verzemnieks and "Life in Obamacare's Dead Zone"

5(ish) Questions: Inara Verzemnieks and “Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone”

“Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone,” Inara Verzemnieks’ story about the health insurance coverage gap, came out in the New York Times Magazine a month after the presidential election, as the media buzzed…
5(ish) Questions: Ted Conover and “Immersion: A Writer's Guide to Going Deep”

5(ish) Questions: Ted Conover and “Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep”

The journalist, who has spent the last 30 years immersing himself in others' lives, talks about going beyond the "cardboard versions" of people, and the ethics of undercover reporting
Annotation Tuesday! Chris Hamby and "The Court That Rules the World"

Annotation Tuesday! Chris Hamby and “The Court That Rules the World”

The BuzzFeed News reporter talks about reporting a story that's hiding in plain sight, and not being intimidated by complicated subjects
Annotation Tuesday! Kathy Sawyer and the execution of the "Death Row Granny"

Annotation Tuesday! Kathy Sawyer and the execution of the “Death Row Granny”

More than 30 years ago, a journalism grad student clipped the Washington Post story as a great example of how to transform a deadline story with narrative details. He still…
Annotation Tuesday! Anthony Ronzio of the Bangor Daily News on "The Good Life"

Annotation Tuesday! Anthony Ronzio of the Bangor Daily News on “The Good Life”

Anthony Ronzio (Credit: Gabor Degre | BDN)Over the past two years the Bangor Daily News, a small-town newspaper in central Maine, has made a name for itself by publishing ambitious…
Annotation Tuesday! Boris Muñoz and "Emptying the Tower of David, the World’s Tallest Ghetto"

Annotation Tuesday! Boris Muñoz and “Emptying the Tower of David, the World’s Tallest Ghetto”

Boris MuñozBoris Muñoz has spent most of his journalistic career in Venezuela, but has lived in the U.S. both while pursuing a PhD at Rutgers and since his year as…

Weekend picks: Child stars, scandal and poetry

Want some smart, provocative, moving stories for your weekend inspiration? Here are Storyboard’s picks of some notable recent work, ranging from poetry about race to essays on journalistic misdeeds and…
Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and radical chic

Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and radical chic

Tom Wolfe and I met twice, in his Upper East Side home, and to answer the inevitable question, no: He never wore a white suit. Dark blazer, dark pants, no hat.…
Pinned: A boxer, a triple murder, an art mystery, a writing conference and how to get organized

Pinned: A boxer, a triple murder, an art mystery, a writing conference and how to get organized

Pinned this week for your storytelling pleasure: pieces on a jailhouse boxer, an old triple homicide in Texas, a billion dollars’ worth of recovered European art, a one-day writing conference and…

Annotation Tuesday! Roger Angell and the pitcher with a major-league case of the yips

Roger Angell has been writing stories about baseball since the year before John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He’s been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1944 and became fiction…