Search results for “the pitch” Showing 336 results "Why’s this so good?" No. 55: Dave Gardetta, inside the Hollywood scene Around the turn of the millennium, big changes swept Hollywood. Suddenly and as never before, screens were clotted with the teen-fodder likes of Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and… August 21, 2012 Jeneen Interlandi on "When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind" We’ve chosen Jeneen Interlandi’s recent New York Times magazine cover story about her father’s mental illness as our latest Notable Narrative. “When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind” follows a… August 17, 2012 How to tell a story: The Moth When students pitch their stories I first make them tell me the story out loud. They resist. They want to write it up, polish and perfect it, but I prefer… August 9, 2012 The AP’s Kristen Gelineau, Ravi Nessman and Mary Rajkumar on the Saroo Brierley saga Two AP reporters and an editor on three continents produced the story that we’ve chosen as our latest Notable Narrative. Kristen Gelineau (Sydney), Ravi Nessman (Delhi), and Mary Rajkumar (Miami; she’s the AP’s international enterprise editor) collaborated on the two-part… July 20, 2012 Video narrative, #longreads and more Keeping you up to date on all things Storyboard, we’d like to point out a few new features and opportunities you might have missed.*We’ve collected some of our most popular chats… June 28, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 48: Burkhard Bilger noodles a catfish The story I want to tell you about, “In the Monster's Maw,” was published in 1997, and that's important. Because in 1997, when Burkhard Bilger went out to Oklahoma for… June 27, 2012 “Why’s this so good?” No. 45: Adam Sternbergh on … walking Let’s start with the headline. Sometimes, when I am trying to headline a piece and my heds are getting more and more punny and convoluted, I gather myself and remember… June 5, 2012 “Why’s this so good?” No. 44: Robert Kurson and the blind man My love affair with narrative nonfiction was in its early stages when I first read Robert Kurson’s “Into the Light,” in the June 2005 edition of Esquire. I was mostly… May 29, 2012 Work we love: a multimedia look at secret slavery, a portrait of fantasy baseball’s founder and dueling Robert Caro profiles Our bookmarks have been busy lately what with all the good stuff to read and watch and hear. Some of our recent favorites hail from CNN.com, Grantland, the New York… May 4, 2012 Getting the story: Luke Dittrich and the tornado In Thursday’s post we excerpted nice lines from the five National Magazine Award finalists in feature writing. These included Luke Dittrich’s “Heavenly Father!...,” from Esquire, about survivors of the Joplin,… April 13, 2012 Previous 1 … 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Next
