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A week of the invisible made visible: the Russian hack of the U.S. election, and a sinister gas leak. Oh, plus... Christmas!

A week of the invisible made visible: the Russian hack of the U.S. election, and a sinister gas leak. Oh, plus… Christmas!

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
Shifting the Focus

Shifting the Focus

Short, powerful documentaries are on the rise as news outlets compete for hearts and minds

Annotation Tuesday! Jenna Pirog on Virtual Reality in “The Displaced”

A good story transports its audience to the scene of the action. The classics of narrative nonfiction are memorable because they find the words that put the reader in the…
Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography

Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography

I’m standing halfway up Hrushevskoho Street on a frosty February morning in Kiev. It’s -13 degrees Celsius, and I’m chain-smoking with my friend and fixer Emine. It makes us feel…
Watch a story 'come to life:' The Big Roundtable's new Open Rehearsal project

Watch a story ‘come to life:’ The Big Roundtable’s new Open Rehearsal project

Editor’s note: The Big Roundtable, a New York-based digital publisher of nonfiction, just launched the Open Rehearsal Project, which allows readers to “watch a story come to life.” The inaugural piece…
Amy Ellis Nutt and the wreck of the Lady Mary, Part 2

Amy Ellis Nutt and the wreck of the Lady Mary, Part 2

In Part 2 of our annotation of Amy Ellis Nutt's Pulitzer-winning "The Wreck of the Lady Mary," Nutt, of the Newark Star-Ledger, explains how the investigative track of her five-chapter…

Amy Ellis Nutt and the wreck of the Lady Mary, Part 1

This is the third in an occasional series of line-by-lines with narrative writers and their work, adapted from a project called Annotation Tuesday! on Tumblr. Earlier, we featured the Tampa Bay Times‘ Michael…
Michael Paterniti on narrative voice, the power of rewrite, Bill Clinton, old cheese, and flying Spaniards (part 1)

Michael Paterniti on narrative voice, the power of rewrite, Bill Clinton, old cheese, and flying Spaniards (part 1)

Veteran magazine writer Michael Paterniti visited the Nieman Foundation a couple of weeks ago for a discussion about literary journalism with Narrative Writing instructor Paige Williams’ class and other fellows.…