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The Nieman Storyboard guide to books on storytelling

The Nieman Storyboard guide to books on storytelling

Journalists, authors, producers, filmmakers, and Nieman Storyboard readers share more than 40 books that inspire their work.
Tell us your favorite books on storytelling

Tell us your favorite books on storytelling

Plus: Robert Caro digs into his personal archives, and The Guardian's Jessica Reed shares what she's looking for in story pitches.
A longform editor on immersive storytelling and its role in journalism

A longform editor on immersive storytelling and its role in journalism

As the Guardian Long Read marks its 10th anniversary, editor David Wolf defines the qualities and purpose of literary journalism
2024 Power of Narrative: How to bring empathy to your reporting

2024 Power of Narrative: How to bring empathy to your reporting

Separating empathy from advocacy, and practicing it as a tool of better listening and more complete stories
2023 Power of Narrative: Revving the story engine

2023 Power of Narrative: Revving the story engine

Atavist editor Seyward Darby on the writing craft that drives readers through a story to the end: Plot, characters, scene
Stories behind bars: The power and pitfalls of "emotional truths"

Stories behind bars: The power and pitfalls of “emotional truths”

Author Lauren Kessler finds echoes of her work in a prisoner profile by Boston Globe reporter Evan Allen that reveals the journalist's role in the story
2022 Power of Narrative: Debbie Cenziper on the reporting-writing partnership

2022 Power of Narrative: Debbie Cenziper on the reporting-writing partnership

Editor’s note: This is one of five posts from the 2022 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. For other takeaways, see Ellen Barry on first-person narratives and Lizzie Johnson…
2022 Power of Narrative: Lizzie Johnson on questions that shape deadline narratives

2022 Power of Narrative: Lizzie Johnson on questions that shape deadline narratives

As the wildfire reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Johnson looked beyond events to people and place for award-winning work
Epic history that inspired epic storytelling

Epic history that inspired epic storytelling

At the end of each semester, after all the discussions of craft, I remind my reporting students at the Missouri School of Journalism the why of it all: the larger…
What working on a farm taught a journalist about visual storytelling

What working on a farm taught a journalist about visual storytelling

Field Testing - Episode 1: In which our correspondent explains what he's doing in a bean field with a selfie stick