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CBC Dispatches (Part 2): composing with sound

[This is Part 2 in our series stealing the best tips from the audio storytelling handbook of the CBC's Dispatches radio program. Part 1 ran yesterday.]The following are things you should start to figure out…
December 2, 2009
CBC Dispatches: Sounding out your story (Part 1)

CBC Dispatches: Sounding out your story (Part 1)

Dispatches is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio News weekly show of documentaries, essays, interviews and reports from around the world. Most are by traveling freelancers. Many are from CBC reporters…
December 1, 2009

The Washington Post Story Lab: letting readers in on how sausage gets made

Is the future of story watching story unfold? Participating in story as it unfolds? The Washington Post’s Story Lab (which had a soft launch last week and official debut today)…
November 30, 2009
Marc Fisher on The Washington Post's new Story Lab

Marc Fisher on The Washington Post’s new Story Lab

I spoke this morning with Marc Fisher, enterprise editor for local news at The Washington Post. Fisher is heading up the organization’s new Story Lab, which launched this week. See…
November 30, 2009

The end of the line for the Lone Ranger? A how-to guide for narrative collaboration

When The Roanoke Times “Age of Uncertainty” won Documentary Project of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, it wasn’t the narrative writing or the photography or the Web…
November 24, 2009
Esquire’s Tom Junod looks for “One Good Man”

Esquire’s Tom Junod looks for “One Good Man”

Esquire’s Tom Junod crawls under his subjects’ public masks and starts asking questions. Junod has long specialized in profiling symbols such as a man falling from the north tower of…
November 23, 2009

Tyler Cowen rails against narrative—can stories make us stupid?

Tyler CowenEarlier this month at the mid-Atlantic TEDx in Baltimore, blogging economist Tyler Cowen gave a 16-minute talk about the dangers of narrative. He spoke about the oft-discussed universal stories…
November 19, 2009
Comic book news: survival tales (part 3)

Comic book news: survival tales (part 3)

[Part 1 of this series looked at the turn toward individuals telling true stories via comics, while Part 2 illustrated how comics began to use a subjective vantage point to…
November 17, 2009
Comic book news: Joe Sacco draws on history (part 2)

Comic book news: Joe Sacco draws on history (part 2)

Part 2 of a look at graphic narrative journalism [Part 1 discussed how “comics journalism” rose from the underground and independent comics scene to combine conventions of the traditional comic…
November 13, 2009
Comic book news: a look at graphic narrative journalism (part 1)

Comic book news: a look at graphic narrative journalism (part 1)

Print journalism and comic books share a history. Without the former the latter would never have come to be. Journalists have also had their own struggle—the phrases “New Journalism” and…
November 12, 2009