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Passing the torch of the creative nonfiction movement

Passing the torch of the creative nonfiction movement

Narrative journalism guru Lee Gutkind sunsets his seminal magazine and launches a partnership with Narratively
A profile of a newspaper press becomes a requiem for an era

A profile of a newspaper press becomes a requiem for an era

Los Angeles Times veteran Thomas Curwen found professionalism and pride in the last Friday night run of the newspaper's storied presses
Effective editing: Get on the phone to talk through ideas and problems

Effective editing: Get on the phone to talk through ideas and problems

After a decade of editing, The Atlantic's Family Editor Julie Beck is going to apply her experience to full-time writing of her own stories
Finding a quiet voice in the center of America’s screaming immigration debate

Finding a quiet voice in the center of America’s screaming immigration debate

The Washington Post's Ruby Cramer profiled a small-city selectman caught in the crossfire of fear, anger and blame over asylum seekers
13 ways to consider an interview

13 ways to consider an interview

A magazine writer and editor shares real-life lessons from 50 years of interviewing: It's not a conversation and you are not a supplicant
Pygmy nuthatches, fountain pens, yellowed clips and time ahead

Pygmy nuthatches, fountain pens, yellowed clips and time ahead

The editor muses on the unknowable 'what's next' for her writing and teaching as she hands the Storyboard baton forward
A new freelance business works like a "dating app for fact-checking"

A new freelance business works like a “dating app for fact-checking”

Journalist and entrepreneur Wudan Yan launches "Factual" to match writers and publications with freelance fact-checkers to ensure accuracy
Daring to bring humor and wonder to serious subjects

Daring to bring humor and wonder to serious subjects

Tom Whipple of the Times of London celebrates the return of beavers to urban England with a "jam sandwich" structure and an inviting voice
How a freelancer's story instincts landed a piece in The New York Times

How a freelancer’s story instincts landed a piece in The New York Times

Erika Hayasaki found characters, scenes and themes in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires that she couldn't set aside despite multiple rejections
Setting up the next chapter of life's story

Setting up the next chapter of life’s story

After six-plus years, the Storyboard editor is handing the keyboard forward