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Notable Narrative: Bernt Jakob Oksnes and "The Baby in the Plastic Bag"

Notable Narrative: Bernt Jakob Oksnes and “The Baby in the Plastic Bag”

The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet bucked the short-attention-span trend by committing to a nine-part serial -- and it paid off both in readers and a powerful narrative about an infant left…
March 7, 2017
Annotation Tuesday! Adrian Chen and “Unfollow”

Annotation Tuesday! Adrian Chen and “Unfollow”

The New Yorker writer talks about his story on the awakening of a daughter of the reviled Westboro Baptist Church, calling it "a culmination of things I was writing about…
January 31, 2017
Annotation Tuesday! Chris Hamby and "The Court That Rules the World"

Annotation Tuesday! Chris Hamby and “The Court That Rules the World”

The BuzzFeed News reporter talks about reporting a story that's hiding in plain sight, and not being intimidated by complicated subjects
January 24, 2017
The Washington Post crosses a storytelling frontier with "A New Age of Walls"

The Washington Post crosses a storytelling frontier with “A New Age of Walls”

The multimedia series chronicling the global migrant crisis takes cues from audience behavior and uses those lessons to the story’s advantage
December 20, 2016
Why's This So Good? Randy Potts and "The Bible Went Down With The Birdie Jean"

Why’s This So Good? Randy Potts and “The Bible Went Down With The Birdie Jean”

I follow the journalist Randy Potts on social media, so I had known for weeks that he was planning to launch “The Bible Went Down With The Birdie Jean,” a…
November 17, 2016
The election of Donald Trump and the death of Leonard Cohen: an intersection

The election of Donald Trump and the death of Leonard Cohen: an intersection

This week I thought I’d depart a little from the regular format, because this wasn’t a normal week. We went to the polls, we elected a billionaire reality-TV star to…
November 11, 2016
5(ish) Questions: The creators of "visual narrative start-up" Primer Stories

5(ish) Questions: The creators of “visual narrative start-up” Primer Stories

Tim Lillis and Joe Alterio talk about combining written stories and visual ones on a site they hope will appeal to both longform lovers and listicle lushes.
October 6, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Jon Mooallem’s “The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community”

Annotation Tuesday! Jon Mooallem’s “The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community”

The writer talks about creating moments of beauty, and the one thing you want to tell people about the story even if it has nothing to do with everything else.
August 23, 2016
"Why's This So Good?" Charles P. Pierce on Michael Brick and Deadline Writing

“Why’s This So Good?” Charles P. Pierce on Michael Brick and Deadline Writing

This is the ninth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who…
June 23, 2016

Annotation Tuesday: The shadowy world of “involuntary celibates”

Elliot Rodger, 22, who went on a deadly rampage near a California university, was an “involuntary celibate.” Most in the “incel” culture disavowed his actions. Writer Peter C. Baker’s recent…
June 21, 2016