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Ari Daniel: "It's so important to show stories that have hopeful threads."

Ari Daniel: “It’s so important to show stories that have hopeful threads.”

If you heard a story last week on NPR’s “Here and Now” about a new kind of nuclear reactor or perhaps remember a recent piece on PRI’s “The World” about…
April 15, 2015
Virtual Reality Lets the Audience Step into the Story

Virtual Reality Lets the Audience Step into the Story

Journalists and documentary filmmakers are using new technologies to foster immersive storytelling
March 19, 2015

Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and “If He Hollers Let Him Go”

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and I met recently in her Brooklyn apartment to talk about “If He Hollers Let Him Go.” Her story, which is and isn’t about comedian Dave Chappelle, ran in…
October 7, 2014
Annotation Tuesday! Buzz Bissinger and "The Killing Trail"

Annotation Tuesday! Buzz Bissinger and “The Killing Trail”

Buzz Bissinger’s “The Killing Trail” — his unremittingly bleak 1995 account of “fag-bashing” in Texas — was his first story for Vanity Fair. (He is still a contributor, and has…
January 28, 2014
Meet the Storytellers: The Nieman Class of 2014

Meet the Storytellers: The Nieman Class of 2014

Every fellow who comes through Lippmann House is a storyteller of a sort, whether with words or visuals or data or sound. The Class of 2014 arrived from across journalistic…
January 16, 2014
"Narrative Sweat & Flow," Part 3: Amy Harmon and Anne Hull

“Narrative Sweat & Flow,” Part 3: Amy Harmon and Anne Hull

Editor’s note: The Oregonian’s Simina Mistreanu spoke to seven narrative journalists for her University of Missouri master’s project on longform. On Tuesday, we ran her setup, a piece on the challenges and importance…
December 6, 2013
Pinned: The danger edition

Pinned: The danger edition

New to our Pinterest page of storytelling wonders: mosquitoes, BASE jumpers, war crimes, gas leaks, cadavers, white noise, a self-policing ex-NFL player and the “problem” with narrative interactivity.From Recommended Reading:In…
November 8, 2013
Featured Fellow: Darcy Frey

Featured Fellow: Darcy Frey

Darcy FreyNieman Class of 2011Frey wrote the 1994 book The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams, about inner-city basketball players hoping for athletic scholarships to college, and is a contributing…
September 23, 2013
New Niemans and their stories: Meet the Class of 2013

New Niemans and their stories: Meet the Class of 2013

The first week of fall term ends today at Harvard, and the Nieman Foundation's newest class of fellows is settling in. The Nieman fellowship, which next year will celebrate its…
September 7, 2012

Jeneen Interlandi on "When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind"

We’ve chosen Jeneen Interlandi’s recent New York Times magazine cover story about her father’s mental illness as our latest Notable Narrative. “When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind” follows a…
August 17, 2012