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Teaching (or learning) story craft? Storyboard is here to help

Teaching (or learning) story craft? Storyboard is here to help

We interrupt your syllabus prep with this important message:Consider Nieman Storyboard as a resource – and even publication destination – in your reporting, writing and journalism ethics courses.Storyboard is a…
Combing through clips, records and emotions for lessons from the past

Combing through clips, records and emotions for lessons from the past

A Los Angeles Times reporter revisited a little-known U.S. Supreme Court abortion rights case that helped pave the way for Roe v. Wade
Cutting through compassion fatigue with sensory writing

Cutting through compassion fatigue with sensory writing

War can become an abstraction unless, of course, you’re in the middle of it. We can read about it or see images, which often are more powerful than words in…
Hacking and whacking the way to writing clarity — and pie

Hacking and whacking the way to writing clarity — and pie

An author and freelancer contemplates story craft as she tames and harvests the blackberry brambles on her land
Storytelling that reaches through your feet to your soul

Storytelling that reaches through your feet to your soul

It’s probably a good thing I missed the memo about suggested attire to the Chicks concert earlier this month. I don’t have a straw cowboy hat. My days of strappy…
The Pitch: Landing a "definitive narrative" in The Atavist Magazine

The Pitch: Landing a “definitive narrative” in The Atavist Magazine

Editor Seyward Darby: "I definitely want people who are willing to strip a story down to its basics and figure out how to build it back up."
Four years of reporting follows new threads in a previously reported crime story

Four years of reporting follows new threads in a previously reported crime story

Katia Savchuk spent a year pre-reporting before she pitched The Atavist on a nuanced story of crime and mental illness
Yardscaping your way to a story

Yardscaping your way to a story

A writer has a flagstone path built at her cabin, and watches the story process in action, one stone (word, paragraph, scene) at a time
Bear essentials and beyond

Bear essentials and beyond

A few shares on bears and books, puppies and propaganda, football and failures of leadership
Dan Barry, baseball and the love of the (writing) game

Dan Barry, baseball and the love of the (writing) game

If there is such a thing as the perfect summer read, this might be it.First, it’s about baseball. Even if you’re not seduced by the sport, the writing it has…