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New Print Magazines Are Embracing Narrative and Finding Their Niche

New Print Magazines Are Embracing Narrative and Finding Their Niche

In 2011, as the Arab Spring dawned, young Lebanese journalist Ibrahim Nehme yearned to play a role in the changes sweeping the Middle East. The region’s print media, he believed,…
December 12, 2014

Annotation Tuesday: the Porn Star and Mike Sager

I’ve been thinking about Mike Sager’s story, “The Devil and John Holmes,” for a long time. I first read his chronicle of the famous porn star and the Wonderland murders…
November 25, 2014

Annotation Tuesday: Jonathan Goldstein and The Little Mermaid

Annotation Tuesday ventures into a new medium today with our first annotation of a radio story. It’s a natural fit. The human voice is, of course, the original storytelling instrument.…
November 4, 2014
5 Questions for David Finkel

5 Questions for David Finkel

David Finkel describes his “deliberate” reporting process at the Nieman FoundationIn selecting David Finkel for one of its “genius” grants in 2012, the MacArthur Foundation described him as “a journalist whose…
October 22, 2014

Pinker, King and Sager on writing

For this weekend’s selections, Storyboard recommends reading about writing; we’re highlighting some recent articles that feature advice from authors whose worlds range from horror to science to journalism.Harvard cognitive scientist,…
October 10, 2014

Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and “If He Hollers Let Him Go”

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and I met recently in her Brooklyn apartment to talk about “If He Hollers Let Him Go.” Her story, which is and isn’t about comedian Dave Chappelle, ran in…
October 7, 2014
5 Questions for Jill Lepore

5 Questions for Jill Lepore

No wonder Jill Lepore describes herself as a “code-switcher.” She’s both a prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Her most…
October 6, 2014
Barbara Mahany and the spiritual landscape

Barbara Mahany and the spiritual landscape

Editor’s Note: Welcome to the newest installment of “Writing the Book,” an occasional Storyboard feature in which journalists turned authors discuss the challenges of creating their work. In this essay,…
October 1, 2014

“The problem of being labelled a confessionalist”

If you’ve read Meghan Daum’s terrific essay in the Sept. 29 New Yorker on her decision to remain childless (one of Storyboard’s most recent weekend picks), you’ll want to take a…
September 29, 2014
Finding the Tribe

Finding the Tribe

When Hillary Frank first started producing “The Longest Shortest Time” podcast in 2010, she was going through a rough time herself. A radio producer for more than a decade, she…
September 11, 2014