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How's it going with The Big Round Table and other narrative ventures, Michael Shapiro?

How’s it going with The Big Round Table and other narrative ventures, Michael Shapiro?

As if longtime Columbia J-school professor Michael Shapiro didn’t already have enough to do, with Big Round Table launching in September: Yesterday he put 17 of his students’ stories online…
May 10, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Eli Saslow and the family con

Annotation Tuesday! Eli Saslow and the family con

A top reporter and storyteller, Eli Saslow was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing two weeks ago for his story about a struggling swimming pool salesman.Today, in the…
April 30, 2013

Dan Barry and the happy-ending kidnapping

The New York Times’ Dan Barry wrote himself onto 1A the other day with a story about an 89-year-old woman who spent two days locked in the trunk of her…
April 11, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 2

Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 2

Pamela Colloff's annotated “The Innocent Man” continues today, with the second and final part. (To read Part 1, go here.) The timing couldn't be better. On Monday, the American Society of Magazine…
April 2, 2013

Just one question … for Michael Graff, on the death of Earl Badu

Big buzz earlier this month when Michael Graff‘s story on the suicide of former University of Maryland basketball walk-on Earl Badu hit SB Nation‘s longform wing: You know the wish can’t come true, but people…
March 28, 2013
Voice, tension, humor, quest and theme: CRMA finalists, Profiles category

Voice, tension, humor, quest and theme: CRMA finalists, Profiles category

In a recent edition of Storyboard’s Annotation Tuesday!, GQ’s Amy Wallace talked about the crossover between narrative and profile writing. “While I get that the two (genres) are distinct, I…
March 22, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 1

Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 1

In November and December, Texas Monthly's Pamela Colloff wrote a two-part series on the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison in the murder of his…
March 19, 2013
CRMA finalists, Part 2: Reporting

CRMA finalists, Part 2: Reporting

In Part 1 of our roundup of finalists in the 2013 City and Regional Magazine Association and Missouri School of Journalism awards, we offered a taste of the stories nominated…
March 15, 2013
Just one question ... for Gene Weingarten, on the Jeffrey MacDonald case

Just one question … for Gene Weingarten, on the Jeffrey MacDonald case

Everybody's read his latest? Great.WILMINGTON, N.C. — They are old men now, the doctor and the lawyer, ancient adversaries confronting each other one last time.The doctor shuffles into the courtroom, his…
March 7, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and "Animals"

Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and "Animals"

By now you've probably heard the story: In October 2011, a suicidal man named Terry Thompson uncaged dozens of wild animals that he kept on his farm in Zanesville, Ohio,…
March 5, 2013