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Katy Butler on Greek tragedy, reader comments and how "scenes keep you close to the bone truth of things"

Katy Butler on Greek tragedy, reader comments and how "scenes keep you close to the bone truth of things"

We recently spoke with Katy Butler about her New York Times Magazine piece, “What Broke My Father’s Heart,” our latest Notable Narrative. Butler, whose work has appeared in magazines such as…
July 6, 2010
The importance of words in multimedia storytelling

The importance of words in multimedia storytelling

Journalists are told to write short for the Web. The online audience wants information, not a lovely phrase or a rousing metaphor. “On the Web, people want to move quickly,” says Hoa Loranger,…
April 21, 2010

Sports Illustrated's Alexander Wolff on writing and the future of narrative: “I’m not sure I’m going to be on that train”

Yesterday, we highlighted a Sports Illustrated story about the lone goal from a U.S.-England World Cup match in 1950 and the tragic disappearance of the man who scored it. Today, we hear…
April 1, 2010

Aminatta Forna interview on "The Last Vet"

We recently talked with Aminatta Forna about her Granta essay “The Last Vet,” which follows the work of Dr. Gudush Jalloh in his clinic at Freetown, Sierra Leone. Forna, who…
March 5, 2010

Tanja Aitamurto on crowdfunding and the future of narrative journalism

Yesterday's Storyboard post was on "Finding Dolly Freed," an innovative approach to narrative journalism. For that story, we shared comments on the project from Tanja Aitamurto, a researcher at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, who did a…
January 15, 2010
Hello, Dolly! Radiohead journalism and the future of narrative

Hello, Dolly! Radiohead journalism and the future of narrative

When a journalist in love with a story gets turned down by magazine after magazine then sells a piece only to see it killed, what’s the next step? If you’re…
January 14, 2010
CBC Dispatches: Sounding out your story (Part 1)

CBC Dispatches: Sounding out your story (Part 1)

Dispatches is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio News weekly show of documentaries, essays, interviews and reports from around the world. Most are by traveling freelancers. Many are from CBC reporters…
December 1, 2009

The end of the line for the Lone Ranger? A how-to guide for narrative collaboration

When The Roanoke Times “Age of Uncertainty” won Documentary Project of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, it wasn’t the narrative writing or the photography or the Web…
November 24, 2009
"Cutthroat Capitalism" strips down story to chase pirate treasure

“Cutthroat Capitalism” strips down story to chase pirate treasure

In WIRED’s recent take on Somali piracy, "Cutthroat Capitalism", Scott Carney leads what might have been a meaty narrative straight into a piranha-infested stream. What he pulls out on the…
November 5, 2009

Michael J. Mooney interview: Unseen lives

Excerpts from an August 2009 interview with Michael J. Mooney, reporter for Florida’s New Times, whose stories won a slot in the Best American Crime Reporting and Best American Sports…
August 31, 2009