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23 Things I’ve Learned from (Not) Being a Columnist

Lessons on column writing from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Schmich’s 23 years at the Chicago Tribune
July 16, 2015

Peter Slevin tackles the biography of First Lady Michelle Obama

Editor’s Note: Anyone who writes about politics and politicians knows how difficult it is to bring fresh insight to familiar issues and personalities. That challenge is even greater if your…
June 29, 2015
Annotation Tuesday: Jeanne Marie Laskas and Guns ’R Us

Annotation Tuesday: Jeanne Marie Laskas and Guns ’R Us

When Jeanne Marie Laskas set out to write about guns for GQ magazine in 2012, she knew it would be difficult but she didn’t expect it would become the story…
June 9, 2015
A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Diana Marcum

A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Diana Marcum

Diana Marcum is the first to acknowledge that her path to a Pulitzer Prize may be an unexpected one.“My parents died when I was young. I didn’t get through college. I didn’t…
April 30, 2015

Weekend picks: Child stars, scandal and poetry

Want some smart, provocative, moving stories for your weekend inspiration? Here are Storyboard’s picks of some notable recent work, ranging from poetry about race to essays on journalistic misdeeds and…
April 10, 2015

“Power of Narrative” Conference: The Secrets of Access

Editor’s Note: Last weekend, Boston University hosted its annual conference on narrative journalism. In the first of two dispatches from the conference, Nieman Fellow Gabe Bullard writes about a panel discussion…
March 30, 2015

Annotation Tuesday: Michael J. Mooney and the Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever

Michael J. Mooney staked his claim in the world of narrative journalism with two stories that ran just weeks apart in the summer of 2012. In June, Mooney, a staff…
March 3, 2015

Jessica Stern on Memoir, Denial and Terror

Jessica Stern / Photo by Joel Benjamin Jessica Stern, a Harvard lecturer and fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, is known…
February 9, 2015
Annotation Tuesday: Justin Heckert and "Lost in the Waves"

Annotation Tuesday: Justin Heckert and “Lost in the Waves”

Justin Heckert has taken to his adopted home of Indianapolis, where his wife, Amanda, is the editor of Indianapolis Monthly. Heckert, who started making a name for himself as a magazine…
January 27, 2015
Best of Storyboard: Reader Favorites for 2014

Best of Storyboard: Reader Favorites for 2014

This year marked some major changes at Storyboard: new website, new editor and new narrative territory. Our most popular posts of 2014 reflect some timely– and timeless– themes. Most notable…
December 18, 2014