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"Narrative Sweat & Flow:" Seven writers, one inquiring student

“Narrative Sweat & Flow:” Seven writers, one inquiring student

Editor's note: First, an introduction, by Jacqui Banaszynski, the Knight Chair in Editing at the Missouri School of Journalism, and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing: Whenever aspiring young…
December 3, 2013
Gay Talese explains why he wrote iconic Esquire profile "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"

Gay Talese explains why he wrote iconic Esquire profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”

Why did it strike a chord with people? Talese has no idea
October 8, 2013
Storyboard 75: The big book of narrative, devoted to excellence in journalistic storytelling

Storyboard 75: The big book of narrative, devoted to excellence in journalistic storytelling

Astute readers will notice there are more than 75 entries here. Think of it as a greatest hits album with bonus tracks.
October 3, 2013
Featured Fellow: Anne Hull

Featured Fellow: Anne Hull

Anne HullClass of 1995A longtime Washington Post reporter, Hull won the Pulitzer for Public Service in 2008, for reporting, with Dana Priest, that exposed substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army…
September 26, 2013
Featured Fellow: Paul Salopek

Featured Fellow: Paul Salopek

Paul SalopekNieman Class of 2012Salopek is a former Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize: for explanatory reporting on the Human Genome Diversity Project (1998), and…
September 16, 2013
Featured Fellow: Cynthia Tucker

Featured Fellow: Cynthia Tucker

Cynthia TuckerNieman Class of 1989Tucker spent decades as an Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., and served as the editorial page editor. In 2011, she left the newspaper, to…
August 28, 2013
"Detroit: A love story:" Chuck Salter, Fast Company, and a layered, live-storytelling approach to the tale of a desperate city

"Detroit: A love story:" Chuck Salter, Fast Company, and a layered, live-storytelling approach to the tale of a desperate city

Fast Company's Chuck Salter recently came up with an innovative way to address the unfolding narrative that is Detroit. The city, long depressed, is now bankrupt. Unemployment stands at double the national rate;…
August 16, 2013
Snap Judgment's Glynn Washington on storytelling influences, NPR, race, narrative intention, pacing and structure

Snap Judgment’s Glynn Washington on storytelling influences, NPR, race, narrative intention, pacing and structure

Detroit Week continues here on Storyboard, with an appearance by radio storyteller Glynn Washington, a Motor City native and host of the hot NPR show Snap Judgment. We recently ran Part 1…
August 15, 2013
Skip Hollandsworth on storytelling, listening, Hollywood, respect and the importance of getting out into the world

Skip Hollandsworth on storytelling, listening, Hollywood, respect and the importance of getting out into the world

No bullet-point tips list could compare with Skip Hollandworth’s Sunday sermonizing, which closed the 2013 Mayborn Conference. What follows is the Mayborn's video of Hollandsworth (followed by our selected excerpts)…
August 1, 2013
Kelley Benham and Tom French on "Never Let Go," book collaboration, first-person writing, memory and love

Kelley Benham and Tom French on "Never Let Go," book collaboration, first-person writing, memory and love

Tampa Bay Times reporter Kelley Benham went into labor four months early and delivered her daughter, Juniper, at 23 weeks: a baby who weighed 20 ounces and was no taller…
July 30, 2013