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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
Shaun McKinnon on deadline narrative, soundtrack inspiration and re-engaging readers in a saturated news story

Shaun McKinnon on deadline narrative, soundtrack inspiration and re-engaging readers in a saturated news story

To follow up on our latest Notable Narrative we flagged down Arizona Republic reporter Shaun McKinnon this week as he boarded a plane from Washington, D.C., back home to Phoenix,…
April 6, 2012

Shaun McKinnon and the Gabby Giffords shooting

In our newest Notable Narrative, which just this week won the American Society of News Editors prize for distinguished nondeadlinewriting, Arizona Republic reporter Shaun McKinnon tells the absorbing account of…
April 5, 2012
November Editors’ Roundtable: GQ's close-up on the people who bring you breakfast (and lunch, and dinner)

November Editors’ Roundtable: GQ’s close-up on the people who bring you breakfast (and lunch, and dinner)

Our November Roundtable looks at “Hecho en América,” by Jeanne Marie Laskas. Laskas immerses herself in the world of migrant workers picking blueberries in Washington County, Maine, and illuminates the…
November 17, 2011
“Why’s this so good?” No. 12: Ian Frazier digs into piggery

“Why’s this so good?” No. 12: Ian Frazier digs into piggery

Environmental journalists often feel married to the tragic narrative. Pollution, extinction, invasion: The stories are endless, and endlessly the same. Our editors see the pattern and bury us in the…
September 20, 2011