Search results for “nieman” Showing 1735 results What we’re watching: highlights from this year’s Webby Awards honorees For our latest roundup of visual storytelling, we’ve selected some entries from the 15th Annual Webby Awards Official Honoree Selections announced yesterday. The following stories made the first cut but did… April 14, 2011 Meanwhile, back at the ranch, part 4: plot [This last installment in a four-part series on writing historical narratives focuses on the importance of plot in nonfiction storytelling. The series is based on a lecture given by Adam Hochschild… April 11, 2011 Michael Paterniti on the legacy of Gitmo: “I didn’t want to turn it into some neat parable” We recently posted our latest Editors’ Roundtable, which dissected “The Boy from Gitmo” by Mike Paterniti. A National Magazine Award winner (and a seven-time finalist), Paterniti writes for GQ and… April 7, 2011 April Editors’ Roundtable: GQ dives into the personal consequences of war Stop shopping for your Easter bonnet, and put down those 1040s – it's time for a new Editors' Roundtable! This session, our editors are looking at Michael Paterniti's “The Boy from… April 6, 2011 Meanwhile, back at the ranch, part 3: character [This third installment in a four-part series on writing historical narratives focuses on the importance of characters. The series is based on a lecture given by Adam Hochschild at Vanderbilt University… April 5, 2011 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 Mark Boal profiles "The Kill Team" Our latest Notable Narrative, “The Kill Team,” recounts a series of killings in Afghanistan by American soldiers, one of whom recently pleaded guilty to three counts of murder.Rolling Stone has… March 30, 2011 Meanwhile, back at the ranch, part 2: setting [This second installment in a four-part series on writing historical narratives focuses on the importance of setting and scenes in nonfiction storytelling. The series is based on a lecture given by… March 28, 2011 Meanwhile, back at the ranch, part 1 [This four-part series on storytelling and historical narratives is based on a talk given at Vanderbilt University in February 2011.]Half a century ago, the novelist and physicist C.P. Snow wrote… March 25, 2011 What we're reading: underground art, sleepy shrinks and killings by a CIA contractor in Pakistan This week's installment is a grab bag, offering both comedy (a courtroom debate over what exactly a copying machine is) and tragedy (the tsunami in Japan). These stories' styles also… March 22, 2011 Previous 1 … 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 … 174 Next
