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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
Mike Levine Writers Workshop: a chance for reporters to focus on story

Mike Levine Writers Workshop: a chance for reporters to focus on story

Calling all storytellers: Is there a story you’ve been dying to do, or even trying to write, but you know you need help? If so, the Mike Levine Writers Workshop…
January 11, 2010

Charles Pierce on the future of narrative journalism: "anyone not concerned isn’t paying attention"

I talked this week with Charles Pierce about the end-of-decade summary he did for Esquire. Pierce, who also works for The Boston Globe Magazine, talks (and perhaps writes—see end of…
January 7, 2010

Errol Morris in The New York Times on still photography and context

So much depends upon a stuffed Mickey Mouse lying in the debris of a bombed-out building. In a weekend post on The New York Times site, Opinionator Errol Morris takes…
January 4, 2010
In defense of ignorance: Rob Nixon at the MLA on making room for readers

In defense of ignorance: Rob Nixon at the MLA on making room for readers

Can less be more? The value of ignorance came up this week at the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia during a session titled “Literature and Journalism.” Rob Nixon, of…
December 31, 2009
Picturing community: an interview with Los Angeles Times' photographer Francine Orr

Picturing community: an interview with Los Angeles Times’ photographer Francine Orr

Photographer Francine Orr had experience reporting on poverty and humanitarian crises around the globe. But while working on “Gimme Shelter,” an audio slide show about L.A.-area homeless people living under…
December 29, 2009