Search results for “context” Showing 514 results Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration, structuring an epic narrative and the challenges of writing nonfiction Continuing the spring flurry of awards, Columbia University and the Nieman Foundation announced last week that the 2011 Mark Lynton History Prize will be awarded to Isabel Wilkerson for her… April 4, 2011 What we’re watching: a town washed away, satellite images and covering conflict With Muammar Qaddafi's efforts to suppress armed rebellion in Libya and the events unleashed by the massive earthquake in Japan on Friday, it’s a wonder that those of us not involved… March 14, 2011 March Editors’ Roundtable: Mother Jones looks at rape in Haiti The narrative for discussion in the second installment of our Editors’ Roundtable is “Welcome to Haiti's Reconstruction Hell” by Mac McClelland. Appearing in Mother Jones earlier this year, the story was written after… March 3, 2011 The Goggles on "Welcome to Pine Point": digital narrative chases memory and loss What if your hometown disappeared, literally vanished from the map? How would you hold onto it? Would the community of people who had lived there continue? "Welcome to Pine Point"… February 4, 2011 February Editors’ Roundtable: Time magazine takes on the Tucson shootings The narrative selected for discussion by our first-ever Editors’ Roundtable is “The Real Lesson of the Tucson Tragedy” by David Von Drehle. Appearing in Time magazine five days after the shooting of… February 1, 2011 Keeping it real: how round characters grow from the seeds of detail When I first read the New Journalism manifestos by Tom Wolfe in the late 1970s, they changed forever my vision of narrative. In spite of my Ph.D. in English, I… January 24, 2011 Harvey Smith on environmental storytelling and embedding narrative: "It has to be possible to miss some things to make finding them meaningful" In a bit of serendipitous surfing last fall, I stumbled onto “What Happened Here?” a presentation by Harvey Smith and Matthias Worch at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San… January 14, 2011 Nonny de la Peña on "Gone Gitmo," Stroome and the future of interactive storytelling I recently talked about journalism and storytelling with Nonny de la Peña, who is a senior research fellow in immersive journalism at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communications… January 3, 2011 Facebook as narrative: The Washington Post tries it out online and in print This morning’s Washington Post print edition carried a story built out of an annotated Facebook feed. The piece was posted to washingtonpost.com last night with the title “A Facebook story:… December 10, 2010 Statistics vs. storytelling: the grudge match? Narrative journalism has been dogged for years by the idea that it is too subjective or somehow less capable of conveying hard numbers to the public than a traditional news… November 19, 2010 Previous 1 … 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 … 52 Next
