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Nieman Storyboard's top 10 posts for 2011

During the last days of December, we’ve been tweeting down Storyboard’s top 10 posts for the year. In case you haven't been following along, here they are, all in one…
December 30, 2011
When journalists become authors: a few cautionary tips

When journalists become authors: a few cautionary tips

There's long-form narrative, and then there's book-length narrative. Both are "long," but a story that's 300 pages long is a different proposition, for both writer and reader, from one that's…
December 15, 2011

Elegy for an enforcer

If you’ve been on the New York Times’ website at all this week, or even the Internet, chances are you’ve seen or heard something about our latest Notable Narrative, “Punched…
December 8, 2011
Gay Talese has a Coke*: reflections of a narrative legend, in conversation with Esquire's Chris Jones

Gay Talese has a Coke*: reflections of a narrative legend, in conversation with Esquire’s Chris Jones

Continuing the Nieman Foundation narrative writing speaker series set up by Paige Williams, journalism legend Gay Talese appeared on campus two weeks ago in conversation with Esquire’s Chris Jones. The Harvard…
December 2, 2011
September Editors' Roundtable No. 2: The New York Times on facing death

September Editors' Roundtable No. 2: The New York Times on facing death

Our second Roundtable of September examines “The Good Short Life,” by Dudley Clendinen. Diagnosed with ALS, Clendinen reflects on the past suffering of those closest to him and decides that he would…
September 29, 2011
“Why's this so good?” No. 13: Gene Weingarten peels the Great Zucchini

“Why’s this so good?” No. 13: Gene Weingarten peels the Great Zucchini

The Great Zucchini has a secret. And in “The Peekaboo Paradox,” Gene Weingarten exhumes the history that haunts the most popular children’s entertainer in Washington, D.C. The story, which ran…
September 27, 2011

September Editors’ Roundtable No. 1: The Virginian-Pilot on saving soldiers in Afghanistan

Our first Roundtable of September examines “A Chance in Hell,” by Corinne Reilly. Visiting a combat hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Reilly shows the endless challenges of trauma medicine just a helicopter…
September 15, 2011
Story, interrupted: why we need new approaches to digital narrative

Story, interrupted: why we need new approaches to digital narrative

The way we tell stories in print has been mostly the same for some time now. Space constraints and graphic layout have made the narrative flow a broken one. With…
September 8, 2011
August Editors' Roundtable No. 1: GQ ponders truth, lies and mystery

August Editors’ Roundtable No. 1: GQ ponders truth, lies and mystery

Our first Roundtable of August considers “Blindsided: The Jerry Joseph Basketball Scandal,” by Michael Mooney. The story spotlights a high school basketball player who stirred up questions about truth and…
August 4, 2011
“Why’s this so good?” No. 5: Raymond Chandler sticks it to Hollywood

“Why’s this so good?” No. 5: Raymond Chandler sticks it to Hollywood

We tend now to think of Hollywood’s hackneyed, would-be blockbusters as a new phenomenon, one borne of desperation, unprecedented cynicism and the rise of narrative television. But Raymond Chandler's wonderful…
July 27, 2011