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The pioneering narrative work of "girl stunt reporters"

The pioneering narrative work of “girl stunt reporters”

A while ago, preparing to teach a literary nonfiction class, I reread Nellie Bly’s “Ten Days in a Mad House,” her account of going undercover in 1887 into Blackwell’s Insane…
February 24, 2022
Reporting trauma: John D. Sutter on Hurricane Maria

Reporting trauma: John D. Sutter on Hurricane Maria

Sutter spent a year following victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico for CNN, and gained insights about taking care of story subjects and himself.
January 27, 2022
Kari Howard: An editor and mentor who loved good stories and storytellers

Kari Howard: An editor and mentor who loved good stories and storytellers

“I’d told a few friends but asked them to keep it under their hats,” Kari emailed me in the spring of 2016. She had just been appointed editor of Nieman…
January 12, 2022
The wisdom of babes, the sounds of music, and tasty stories to chew on

The wisdom of babes, the sounds of music, and tasty stories to chew on

It would have been easy but discouraging to spend an entire year of Storyboard featuring stories about homelessness, climate woes and, of course, COVID-19. It would be tempting to identify…
December 23, 2021
A profile of one family divided by vaccine politics reflects the divide of a nation

A profile of one family divided by vaccine politics reflects the divide of a nation

With Thanksgiving upon us, families across America will gather around tables laden with roast turkey and pumpkin pie. Or not.During the Trump era, squabbles over politics disrupted a holiday that…
November 23, 2021
"That's what writing is, after all the nonsense..."

“That’s what writing is, after all the nonsense…”

Some book purists may cringe at this, but one test of a great book, to me, is how many pages are dogeared by the time I finish. Those are the…
November 4, 2021
Nut grafs (or graphs): How five sentences can help a writer focus

Nut grafs (or graphs): How five sentences can help a writer focus

A freelancer who teaches college journalism leaned on friends, social media, and a simple template to help students find the center of a story
October 20, 2021
Jim Sheeler's legacy to journalism: Empathy, decency and stories that last

Jim Sheeler’s legacy to journalism: Empathy, decency and stories that last

In late August, Jim Tankersley, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, learned he was going to be the pool reporter following President Biden to Dover Air Force…
October 13, 2021
Lane DeGregory: Intimate access to a Florida COVID-19 ward, with conditions

Lane DeGregory: Intimate access to a Florida COVID-19 ward, with conditions

As a writer who routinely embeds in her subjects’ lives, the COVID pandemic was a blow to Lane DeGregory’s reporting. She was barred from sit-down interviews, where she would normally…
September 30, 2021
Jim Sheeler turned the simple obituary into a high and reverent art

Jim Sheeler turned the simple obituary into a high and reverent art

A brief anecdote in a Denver Post story about Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Sheeler describes how a new reporter was seated next to him in the newsroom of the Rocky…
September 23, 2021