Search results for “power of storytelling” Showing 433 results The 1619 project: Tracing steps backwards to find a way forward How a USA Today team helped a woman search her ancestral roots in Angola, home to the first Africans sold into slavery in what would become the U.S. November 26, 2019 Is it real? Or is it Instagram? The Internet of 2019 is rife with social-media influencers and articles about them. Much of the coverage is fawning and superficial: how to become one, how to make $3,000 per Instagram… November 13, 2019 Singular moments, timeless questions Sunday, December 28, 1986. An ordinary day, much like any other. Except in two operating rooms at Fairfax Hospital in suburban Virginia, where something extraordinary was about to happen.In one… October 22, 2019 Lessons from biographer Robert Caro’s instructive mini-memoir “Working” If there were no Robert Caro, he could not easily be invented. Consider the job description: Commit your career to exhaustive research into the lives of two legendarily powerful men,… October 15, 2019 Stories that unfold — and pain that is measured — from the ground up You can almost smell the cedar-hewn totem poles and see them rise from the soil, so evocative is “We Didn’t Stand A Chance,” Joshua Hunt’s personal essay about opioid abuse… October 9, 2019 Subjectivity, hugs and craft: Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism The literary journalism movement unleashed by Capote, Didion, Mailer and Wolfe in the 1960s is reinventing itself in a remarkably powerful way October 8, 2019 Chasing ghosts that will forever haunt "Ghosts of Highway 20:" Through serendipity, creativity and care, a newspaper in Oregon finds answers 40 years after police and courts failed August 27, 2019 Reclaiming history with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up FROM THE ARCHIVES: Alabama's memorial to slavery was conceived through the eyes of slavery's descendants August 23, 2019 Unearthing L.A. through a tribal tongue A team at The Los Angeles Times builds a multimedia narrative to explore an almost-lost language, and reimagine the region as it once was July 10, 2019 Rethinking how we see and understand news — and who frames it If you have taken a picture and shared it with no text, or studied a news image to see if it was “real,” or wondered if “photography” is an accurate… June 7, 2019 Previous 1 … 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 … 44 Next
