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Radio storytelling: When is a story just a story, and when do listeners expect more?

Radio storytelling: When is a story just a story, and when do listeners expect more?

Jay Allison, who produces The Moth Radio Hour and founded Transom.org, once said, "In public radio, our signature is story." He entered radio in the 1970s, from the theater. “I thought, ‘Wait a minute…
June 28, 2013
"Why's this so good?" No. 78: Eli Saslow and "Into the Lonely Quiet"

“Why’s this so good?” No. 78: Eli Saslow and “Into the Lonely Quiet”

Sunday’s Washington Post carried the kind of story that can leave you limp for days. Rare anymore is the narrative that has such a visceral effect, but Eli Saslow’s piece…
June 10, 2013
WBUR + The Atavist + Whitey Bulger: using Creatavist to manage a major tale

WBUR + The Atavist + Whitey Bulger: using Creatavist to manage a major tale

If you haven’t already seen Justin Ellis’s Nieman Lab piece on WBUR’s plans for the Whitey Bulger trial, have a look at today’s news: The Boston NPR station is partnering with…
June 5, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Amy Wallace and one of "the most despised and feared" men in Hollywood

Annotation Tuesday! Amy Wallace and one of "the most despised and feared" men in Hollywood

When Amy Wallace profiled then-Variety editor Peter Bart for Los Angeles magazine, she took on issues of access, personality, misdirection, industry politics, journalism and retaliation. To write about a guy…
May 21, 2013
Prize stories, Part 2: A National Magazine Award for Pamela Colloff

Prize stories, Part 2: A National Magazine Award for Pamela Colloff

Storytelling prize season wound down last night with the presentation of the National Magazine Awards, the Pulitzers of the American magazine world. Texas Monthly’s Pamela Colloff took the “Ellie” for her two-part…
May 3, 2013

“Why’s this so good?” No. 75: Dan P. Lee and the father who lost everything

My estimable friend and former colleague Paul Kix recently wrote a column in this space on John Jeremiah Sullivan. In it he cited an essay Sullivan wrote about the art…
April 9, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 1

Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 1

In November and December, Texas Monthly's Pamela Colloff wrote a two-part series on the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison in the murder of his…
March 19, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Ben Ehrenreich on the grim reaper, L.A. style

Annotation Tuesday! Ben Ehrenreich on the grim reaper, L.A. style

The subject of death has proven inexhaustible, from the Greeks to Hamlet to E.B. White's pig. In "The End," Ben Ehrenreich examines The Inevitable from an unexpected postmortem angle, and with a…
February 19, 2013
Editors' Roundtable: Two boys, a basketball and a 'magical' shot

Editors’ Roundtable: Two boys, a basketball and a ‘magical’ shot

The Oregonian’s Anna Griffin wrote a story last Sunday about a small but rare and memorable moment in high school sports. Deadspin set it up this way:A young man named Davan Overton in…
February 15, 2013

Annotation Tuesday! Amy Wallace on Garry Shandling

Reading Amy Wallace's profiles is like sitting around your favorite bar with your favorite super-witty friend and talking about people over cocktails: You come for the companionship and vibe, you…
February 5, 2013