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National Book Award winner T.J. Stiles on telling good stories and asking big questions

National Book Award winner T.J. Stiles on telling good stories and asking big questions

T.J. Stiles, author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, won a National Book Award in November for his second biography, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of…
January 25, 2010

Interview: Brenda Ann Kenneally on recording the lives of “Upstate Girls”

Earlier this week, we talked with Brenda Ann Kenneally, an independent photojournalist who chronicles coming of age in post-industrial America. Her project, “Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City” won first…
January 22, 2010
Interview: Studio 360's Lu Olkowski on multimedia, poetry and the working poor

Interview: Studio 360’s Lu Olkowski on multimedia, poetry and the working poor

We talked by phone last week with Lu Olkowski, a contributing producer with public radio's Studio 360 and co-creator of our latest Notable Narrative, “Women of Troy.” Here, Olkowski describes how the…
January 21, 2010
Interview: Ted Genoways on journalism and documentary poetry

Interview: Ted Genoways on journalism and documentary poetry

Poetry may not be the first vehicle journalists come up with when they think of reported stories—in fact, poetry may not be on most journalists’ list at all. Virginia Quarterly Review editor…
January 21, 2010

Poetry as narrative journalism? You’d be surprised.

When people talk about journalism tottering off into quaint irrelevance, there is a tendency to compare journalism to poetry. In a post this week at PBS Idea Lab, Spot.Us founder David Cohn…
January 21, 2010

Interview: Susan B.A. Somers-Willett on "Women of Troy"

We spoke earlier this week with Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, who wrote a series of poems for the multimedia project “Women of Troy,” our latest Notable Narrative. A professor at Montclair…
January 19, 2010
The expansive, defiant "Women of Troy"

The expansive, defiant "Women of Troy"

An ambitious effort to present working-class women in down-at-heel Troy, N.Y., “Women of Troy” brings the hard life front and center. The project is the first installment of In Verse,…
January 19, 2010

Tanja Aitamurto on crowdfunding and the future of narrative journalism

Yesterday's Storyboard post was on "Finding Dolly Freed," an innovative approach to narrative journalism. For that story, we shared comments on the project from Tanja Aitamurto, a researcher at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, who did a…
January 15, 2010
Paige Williams on "Finding Dolly Freed"

Paige Williams on "Finding Dolly Freed"

Yesterday on the Storyboard, we looked at a new approach to narrative by focusing on Paige Williams' self-published project "Finding Dolly Freed." That post considered the possiblities for crowdfunded narrative journalism,…
January 15, 2010
Hello, Dolly! Radiohead journalism and the future of narrative

Hello, Dolly! Radiohead journalism and the future of narrative

When a journalist in love with a story gets turned down by magazine after magazine then sells a piece only to see it killed, what’s the next step? If you’re…
January 14, 2010