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Annotation Tuesday: Jonathan Goldstein and The Little Mermaid

Annotation Tuesday ventures into a new medium today with our first annotation of a radio story. It’s a natural fit. The human voice is, of course, the original storytelling instrument.…
November 4, 2014
5 Questions for David Finkel

5 Questions for David Finkel

David Finkel describes his “deliberate” reporting process at the Nieman FoundationIn selecting David Finkel for one of its “genius” grants in 2012, the MacArthur Foundation described him as “a journalist whose…
October 22, 2014

Fourth “Power of Storytelling” conference opens in Romania

If we were in Bucharest today, we could listen to newly named New York Times deputy international editor Amy O’Leary talk about digital storytelling or delve into the less glamorous…
October 17, 2014
Jonathan Eig searches for the characters of his new book

Jonathan Eig searches for the characters of his new book

In previous books, best-selling author Jonathan Eig profiled baseball legend Lou Gehrig and Chicago gangster Al Capone. But as he set about researching his most recent project, he faced an interesting…
October 14, 2014

Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and “If He Hollers Let Him Go”

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and I met recently in her Brooklyn apartment to talk about “If He Hollers Let Him Go.” Her story, which is and isn’t about comedian Dave Chappelle, ran in…
October 7, 2014
5 Questions for Jill Lepore

5 Questions for Jill Lepore

No wonder Jill Lepore describes herself as a “code-switcher.” She’s both a prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Her most…
October 6, 2014
Bringing creativity to complex issues: The Washington Post, New Republic and CIR

Bringing creativity to complex issues: The Washington Post, New Republic and CIR

This week’s 3 for 2 picks highlight recent work that incorporates elements of creative storytelling to examine complex issues, with standout journalism on national security, criminal justice and the environment.…
October 3, 2014
Barbara Mahany and the spiritual landscape

Barbara Mahany and the spiritual landscape

Editor’s Note: Welcome to the newest installment of “Writing the Book,” an occasional Storyboard feature in which journalists turned authors discuss the challenges of creating their work. In this essay,…
October 1, 2014

“The problem of being labelled a confessionalist”

If you’ve read Meghan Daum’s terrific essay in the Sept. 29 New Yorker on her decision to remain childless (one of Storyboard’s most recent weekend picks), you’ll want to take a…
September 29, 2014
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