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5(ish) Questions: Photographer Stuart Palley and "Terra Flamma: Wildfires at Night"

5(ish) Questions: Photographer Stuart Palley and “Terra Flamma: Wildfires at Night”

We’re drowning in imagery these days: photos on the pages of newspapers and magazines, on televisions, smart phones, iPads and laptops; full-wrap ads on buses, trains and towering buildings; even…
January 10, 2017
Annotation Tuesday! Jessica Weisberg and The Atavist's "A Family Matter"

Annotation Tuesday! Jessica Weisberg and The Atavist’s “A Family Matter”

Jessica Weisberg believes that narrative journalism is heading toward a post-platform world where reporters pick the right medium for each story. If that’s the case, she’s been training for the…
January 3, 2017
Why's This So Good? Mark Seal and "The Man in the Rockefeller Suit"

Why’s This So Good? Mark Seal and “The Man in the Rockefeller Suit”

Clark Rockefeller doesn’t exist. The pressed Lacoste shirts and fancy shoes might be his, but the name, the title and everything else are fake.In a Vanity Fair piece that reads…
December 8, 2016
Why's This So Good: Fidel Castro and the art of the obit

Why’s This So Good: Fidel Castro and the art of the obit

Anyone who’s worked in the obituary or foreign news section of a news outlet has a story or two to tell about the Fidel Castro obituary, otherwise known as Bane…
November 28, 2016
Shifting the Focus

Shifting the Focus

A swirling pinkish orb, emerging out of the void.Voiceover: “Hundreds of years down the line, who’s going to know who was the president of the United States, or something?”Solar rays…
November 10, 2016
5 Questions: Hanna Rosin and "The Silicon Valley Suicides"

5 Questions: Hanna Rosin and “The Silicon Valley Suicides”

Tomorrow’s journalists exploring the masters of today Jacqui Banaszynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who now is an endowed Knight Chair  professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Last semester,…
October 27, 2016
5 Questions: The Washington Post's Eli Saslow and "A survivor's life"

5 Questions: The Washington Post’s Eli Saslow and “A survivor’s life”

In a media landscape quite dependent on quick takes on Twitter and videos transmitted by smartphones, Eli Saslow’s byline offers reassurance of the staying power of the written word. We…
October 20, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Brooke Jarvis and "The Deepest Dig"

Annotation Tuesday! Brooke Jarvis and “The Deepest Dig”

Recently, Brooke Jarvis’ byline has seemed to pop up everywhere. I opened “Love and Ruin,” a new anthology of stories from The Atavist, to find a piece on her year…
October 18, 2016
5(ish) Questions: Charlotte Magazine and the shooting of Keith Scott

5(ish) Questions: Charlotte Magazine and the shooting of Keith Scott

Last week on Storyboard, I chatted with Brian Kevin of Down East magazine about a wonderful story that ran in the Maine-based publication last year. He talked about the constant…
October 12, 2016
The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

Want an end-of-summer beach read that’ll turn heads faster than a Burkini ban? Consider Asma Lamrabet’s book, Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading, which has just been translated into English…
September 12, 2016