Search results for “citizen journalism” Showing 123 results Jeanne Marie Laskas on hidden lives, the search for the perfect protagonist, and the joys of long-form Our November Editors’ Roundtable looked at “Hecho en América,” a story by GQ correspondent Jeanne Marie Laskas about migrant blueberry pickers in Maine. Laskas’ work has been featured previously on this… November 18, 2011 “Why’s this so good?" No. 16: David Foster Wallace on the vagaries of cruising For seven days and seven nights in mid-March of 1995, David Foster Wallace took a cruise. He did not have a very good time. The results of the voyage are… October 18, 2011 Eli Saslow on writing news narratives, creating empathy and characters’ defining moments Our latest Notable Narrative comes from The Washington Post’s Eli Saslow, who wrote about a Wisconsin man’s attempt to understand what the federal budget debate means for his family. In… April 29, 2011 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 Michael Jones on heroes, villains and the science of narrative We spoke last week with Michael D. Jones, who is applying statistics to narrative here at Harvard during his fellowship at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Jones, who… September 28, 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 USC's Henry Jenkins on multimedia storytelling: what can journalists learn from He-Man? When it comes to narrative multimedia, how can we reimagine storytelling from the ground up? What if templates for new models were right in front of us? In a recent… May 28, 2010 Voice and Meaning [Editor’s note: This essay first appeared on transom.org, “a showcase and resource for new public radio.”] Dear Transomistas, It was daunting to have Jay Allison’s invitation to be a guest… December 1, 2006 The Heart Attack Beat For an ambitious young reporter who loved writing stories, it sounded like the assignment of a lifetime. My editor, Joel Rawson, wanted daily narratives for the front page of The… August 8, 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 … 9 10 11 12 13 Next
