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From Mayborn: How Video Can Improve Narrative

From Mayborn: How Video Can Improve Narrative

Dan Barry said a 90-word wire report from rural Iowa was the spark of what became his 2014 story “The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse.’”Thirty men with intellectual disabilities in a…
July 20, 2015
From Mayborn: Confronting Reportorial and Editorial Mistakes

From Mayborn: Confronting Reportorial and Editorial Mistakes

In a room full of writers, Caleb Hannan was remarkably honest and candid about his mistakes.At the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Hannan discussed his 2014 Grantland story that sparked national…
July 20, 2015
The Riveter: Longform Journalism by Women, for Women

The Riveter: Longform Journalism by Women, for Women

The Riveter’s second issue was published in summer 2014, and its third issue is set to publish this fall.The two journalism students didn’t let their awe at meeting Esquire writer…
July 20, 2015

23 Things I’ve Learned from (Not) Being a Columnist

Lessons on column writing from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Schmich’s 23 years at the Chicago Tribune
July 16, 2015

Peter Slevin tackles the biography of First Lady Michelle Obama

Editor’s Note: Anyone who writes about politics and politicians knows how difficult it is to bring fresh insight to familiar issues and personalities. That challenge is even greater if your…
June 29, 2015

Memorial Day Reading List

It’s easy to forget, amid all the cookouts and trips to the beach, that Memorial Day was created to remember the men and women who have died in military service.…
May 22, 2015

Annotation Live! The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos and Richard M. Daley

If you’re read the most recent Storyboard feature for the Nieman Reports magazine — and, if you haven’t, here it is — you may know that narrative is increasingly taking to…
May 15, 2015
Exploring the Rise of Live Journalism

Exploring the Rise of Live Journalism

Walking tours, workshops, and other live events bring narrative reporting and writing from the page to the stage
May 7, 2015
A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Diana Marcum

A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Diana Marcum

Diana Marcum is the first to acknowledge that her path to a Pulitzer Prize may be an unexpected one.“My parents died when I was young. I didn’t get through college. I didn’t…
April 30, 2015
Ari Daniel: "It's so important to show stories that have hopeful threads."

Ari Daniel: “It’s so important to show stories that have hopeful threads.”

If you heard a story last week on NPR’s “Here and Now” about a new kind of nuclear reactor or perhaps remember a recent piece on PRI’s “The World” about…
April 15, 2015