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Peggy Nelson on new media narratives: "Every Twitter account is a character"

Peggy Nelson on new media narratives: "Every Twitter account is a character"

We talked this week with Peggy Nelson, a new media artist who has spent the last several years doing digital and virtual storytelling. While Nelson’s work is rooted in conceptual…
February 12, 2010

Interview: Brenda Ann Kenneally on recording the lives of “Upstate Girls”

Earlier this week, we talked with Brenda Ann Kenneally, an independent photojournalist who chronicles coming of age in post-industrial America. Her project, “Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City” won first…
January 22, 2010

Interview: Susan B.A. Somers-Willett on "Women of Troy"

We spoke earlier this week with Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, who wrote a series of poems for the multimedia project “Women of Troy,” our latest Notable Narrative. A professor at Montclair…
January 19, 2010
Hello, Dolly! Radiohead journalism and the future of narrative

Hello, Dolly! Radiohead journalism and the future of narrative

When a journalist in love with a story gets turned down by magazine after magazine then sells a piece only to see it killed, what’s the next step? If you’re…
January 14, 2010
Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 2)

Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 2)

Storyboard recently talked about visual storytelling and intimacy with two very different journalists: an independent 30-year veteran and a newsroom staff photographer just two years out of graduate school.Yesterday, we…
December 23, 2009
Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 1)

Intimate journalism: thoughts from a veteran and a beginner (part 1)

Storyboard recently talked about visual storytelling and intimacy with two very different journalists: an independent 30-year veteran and a newsroom staff photographer just two years out of graduate school. Tomorrow,…
December 22, 2009

Visual narrative and still photography: is a picture worth a thousand words?

This week, Michael Zhang (@PetaPixel) tweeted a link to this striking photo gallery of the Athens riots, which is composed of AP, AFP and Getty images. I was particularly intrigued by…
December 11, 2009

Fallout: Brookhaven National Lab’s Legacy in the Pacific

While we love the classic storytelling of Gary Smith or Chris Jones, sometimes a Notable Narrative attracts our attention even if it sits on the border between narrative and straight…
November 20, 2009
Comic book news: survival tales (part 3)

Comic book news: survival tales (part 3)

[Part 1 of this series looked at the turn toward individuals telling true stories via comics, while Part 2 illustrated how comics began to use a subjective vantage point to…
November 17, 2009
Comic book news: a look at graphic narrative journalism (part 1)

Comic book news: a look at graphic narrative journalism (part 1)

Print journalism and comic books share a history. Without the former the latter would never have come to be. Journalists have also had their own struggle—the phrases “New Journalism” and…
November 12, 2009