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Finding the Tribe

Finding the Tribe

When Hillary Frank first started producing “The Longest Shortest Time” podcast in 2010, she was going through a rough time herself. A radio producer for more than a decade, she…
September 11, 2014
First Listen: Apple’s iTunes carries more than 250,000 podcasts. Here are a few of the best for journalists

First Listen: Apple’s iTunes carries more than 250,000 podcasts. Here are a few of the best for journalists

“Strangers”Host/Producer: Lea ThauThrough conversations about life and death, love and heartbreak, and everything in between, people share the most intimate stories about their lives.Recommended Episode: “Gay Talese: Committed Voyeur” The…
September 11, 2014
Required Reading, Session Two

Required Reading, Session Two

Welcome to the second session of our discussion with narrative instructors about the stories they’re assigning students this fall. If you missed Monday’s recommendations from Alex Kotlowitz, Doug Foster and…
September 9, 2014

Required Reading, Session One

The stories narrative instructors want their students to study
September 8, 2014
Registration Open: Narrative Conference at Berkeley

Registration Open: Narrative Conference at Berkeley

Registration is now open for “The Latest in Longform,” the new, small-scale narrative journalism conference at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Organized by former Nieman narrative…
September 5, 2014

3 (Stories) for 3 (Days)

In between those end-of-summer barbecues and final visits to the beach, make time for some good storytelling this Labor Day holiday. Here are Storyboard’s three weekend picks:Writing for GQ in…
August 29, 2014

“I never intended to write a Starbucks story.”

Starbucks employee Jannette Navarro and her son, Gavin, were the subjects of a story by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor. (Reprinted with permission.) Few pieces of journalism — let…
August 25, 2014
3 (stories) for 2 (days): A weekend reading list

3 (stories) for 2 (days): A weekend reading list

Pam ColloffIt’s one of the last weekends of the summer and a good time to relax on the front porch with some of the recent noteworthy stories you may have…
August 22, 2014
"Stay away from your phone"

“Stay away from your phone”

Tom HuangTom Huang, the Sunday and enterprise editor at the Dallas Morning News, offered some good ideas for sharpening storytelling skills during a writing panel at last week’s Asian American…
August 19, 2014

Annotation: John Jeremiah Sullivan and “Upon This Rock”

[Editor’s note: John Jeremiah Sullivan‘s “Upon This Rock” is by now a modern classic of literary journalism: writer rents an RV, experiences a Christian rock festival (and certain revelations) with a…
August 1, 2014