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Two anti-racist scholars and writers take on the cultural limits of "objectivity"

Two anti-racist scholars and writers take on the cultural limits of “objectivity”

In a final conversation at The Power of Narrative conference, Jelani Cobb and Ibram X. Kendi argue that narrative should be used to convey fuller truths
What narrative master Eli Saslow learned about intimacy interviewing by phone

What narrative master Eli Saslow learned about intimacy interviewing by phone

EDITOR’S NOTE: The “Voices from the Pandemic” series has been awarded a 2020 George Polk Award in Oral Histories.Eli Saslow of The Washington Post has made a name for himself…
Videos taken by Parler users from the U.S. Capitol assault tell a valuable story

Videos taken by Parler users from the U.S. Capitol assault tell a valuable story

Last week, Sen. Mitt Romney called for preserving evidence of the destruction caused by the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol “so that 150 years from now, as people…
"We start with more questions than answers..."

“We start with more questions than answers…”

The retirement of newspaper editors is usually the stuff of insider industry news. Occasionally one breaks through to merit attention far more broadly.Martin Baron is one of those. The announcement…
Reconstructing the tragedy of COVID from the epicenter of New York City's outbreak

Reconstructing the tragedy of COVID from the epicenter of New York City’s outbreak

Zooming in on a hard-hit corner of multi-cultural Queens, Dan Barry, Annie Correal and a New York Times team dared to get close and gain trust
A go-to list of how-to story craft posts from 2020

A go-to list of how-to story craft posts from 2020

While all Storyboard posts offer lessons from the masters of the craft, we offer a few practical stand-outs from the past year
A profile of one place that echoes all places

A profile of one place that echoes all places

How evocative imagery and telling details paint a portrait of a singular landscape that holds universal emotions and memories
The struggle to define cinematic writing

The struggle to define cinematic writing

I’ve been struggling to find the right term for the nonfiction writing I most admire. Whether written by Joan Didion, David Grann, Susan Orlean, Héctor Tobar, Isabel Wilkerson, or Gene…
How a viral tweet led to a sensitive story on family, race and America

How a viral tweet led to a sensitive story on family, race and America

It was the kind of tweet a lot of people would thumb past with no more than a quick “like.” But when Jaweed Kaleem read about a one-woman Black Lives…
How Reveal investigated the systemic abuse of America’s caregivers

How Reveal investigated the systemic abuse of America’s caregivers

An investigative series exposed the entrenched practice of exploiting care workers for profit, giving silenced and underpaid caregivers a voice