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

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

Anyone who’s taken a shortcut and skipped the primer while painting a room knows the kind of results you can get. Uneven. Unpolished. The primer sets the stage for a…
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”

Every once in a while you read a story that feels so authentic and true, you wish you’d written it. That’s how I felt reading Jon Mooallem’s New York Times…
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"

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 work…
June 21, 2016

Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and “The Things That Carried Him”

This story was published in May 2008, five years into Chris Jones’s career at Esquire. Jones was 35 at the time, and he says it was probably the best time…
September 29, 2015
Stories We Loved: Some Favorite Narrative from 2014

Stories We Loved: Some Favorite Narrative from 2014

It’s that time of year when “Best of” lists litter the landscape like pine needles. Here at Storyboard, we decided to do something a little different to commemorate 2014. We…
December 31, 2014
"Serial" podcast producers talk storytelling, structure and if they know whodunnit

“Serial” podcast producers talk storytelling, structure and if they know whodunnit

The true-crime outline may sound familiar; the storytelling is not
October 30, 2014
Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and "If He Hollers Let Him Go"

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,…
October 7, 2014
First Listen: Apple’s iTunes carries more than 250,000 podcasts. Here are a few of the best for journalists

First Listen: Apple’s iTunes carries more than 250,000 podcasts. Here are a few of the best for journalists

“Strangers”Host/Producer: Lea ThauThrough conversations about life and death, love and heartbreak, and everything in between, people share the most intimate stories about their lives.Recommended Episode: “Gay Talese: Committed Voyeur” The…
September 11, 2014
Launched: Storyline, the Washington Post's new narrative project intersecting policy and storytelling

Launched: Storyline, the Washington Post’s new narrative project intersecting policy and storytelling

The Washington Post’s new narrative project, Storyline, launched today under the editorship of economics policy correspondent Jim Tankersley, with the tagline “People, policy, data.” As Tankersley explains in his introduction,…
July 22, 2014