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Newsroom Ode #7: Desperation calls the consultant

Newsroom Ode #7: Desperation calls the consultant

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the seventh in a series of Monday odes that chronicle the legacy newsroom. Each is written from different first-person perspective. Together they create the mumbled narrative of…
February 18, 2019
Forget the chocolates. Tell a story instead

Forget the chocolates. Tell a story instead

I‘m not much on Valentine’s Day. I liked the grade school tradition of exchanging Valentine’s Day cards with classmates. (Is that just a U.S. thing?) Each of us was supposed…
February 14, 2019

“I work like a watchmaker or an old-fashioned silversmith: one eye screwed up… ”

—From the memoir "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz
February 13, 2019
More on nut grafs: A sweet addendum

More on nut grafs: A sweet addendum

EDITOR’S NOTE: Storyboard recently revisited the long-standing debate over the ‘nut graf’ — variably called the summary nut, the billboard, the transition, the significance graf, the so-what passage, the foreshadow. Veteran writer…
February 12, 2019
Newsroom Ode #6: Sitting pretty at the top

Newsroom Ode #6: Sitting pretty at the top

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the sixth in a series of Monday odes that chronicle the legacy newsroom. Each is written from different first-person perspective. Together they create the mumbled narrative of…
February 11, 2019
For the love of analog in a digital world

For the love of analog in a digital world

Every August when I was young, my mother would take me to the store to buy some back-to-school notebooks. Maybe some pencils. Sometimes even a plastic pencil sharpener.This was a…
February 6, 2019
Newsroom Ode #5: Pity the poor publisher

Newsroom Ode #5: Pity the poor publisher

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fIfth in a series of Monday odes that chronicle the legacy newsroom. Each is written from different first-person perspective. Together they create the mumbled narrative of…
February 2, 2019
A nutcracker suite: How top journalists interpret the dance of the nut graf

A nutcracker suite: How top journalists interpret the dance of the nut graf

Perspectives from more than 20 top journalists on what the "nut graf" really means
February 1, 2019
A nut graf by any other name might taste sweeter ~ and be more digestible

A nut graf by any other name might taste sweeter ~ and be more digestible

A defense of the summary nut as it is used in variations by Ken Burns, the Beatles and Shakespeare
January 31, 2019
Nut grafs: Overused, misused — or merely misunderstood?

Nut grafs: Overused, misused — or merely misunderstood?

When a summary nut beeps like the back-up horn on a truck or blinds like a searchlight, it can ruin the magic of a narrative
January 30, 2019