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"Why's this so good?" No. 77: Danny and the carjackers

"Why’s this so good?" No. 77: Danny and the carjackers

@GlobeMoskowitzOne of the most riveting stories to emerge from the Boston Marathon bombing coverage was the Boston Globe piece, by Eric Moskowitz, about “Danny,” the young Chinese entrepreneur who spent…
May 7, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Eli Saslow and the family con

Annotation Tuesday! Eli Saslow and the family con

A top reporter and storyteller, Eli Saslow was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing two weeks ago for his story about a struggling swimming pool salesman.Today, in the…
April 30, 2013
Prize storytelling: The 2013 Pulitzers

Prize storytelling: The 2013 Pulitzers

At some point, we’ll round up some of the better deadline storytelling from the past two weeks’ historic news out of Boston and Texas and Washington, D.C., and Mississippi and Cambridge and Watertown, but let’s end…
April 26, 2013
The story of a moment

The story of a moment

When the bombs went off, we were talking about Miranda. Specifically, we* were talking about David Simon’s treatment of the Miranda warning in his book, Homicide: A Year on the…
April 25, 2013

"Why’s this so good?" No. 76: William Nack and "Pure Heart"

I still remember where I was—sitting in a dive bar in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., trying to tune out the noise from the beach bums and a jukebox blaring Madonna and…
April 23, 2013

Dan Barry and the happy-ending kidnapping

The New York Times’ Dan Barry wrote himself onto 1A the other day with a story about an 89-year-old woman who spent two days locked in the trunk of her…
April 11, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 2

Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 2

Pamela Colloff's annotated “The Innocent Man” continues today, with the second and final part. (To read Part 1, go here.) The timing couldn't be better. On Monday, the American Society of Magazine…
April 2, 2013

Just one question … for Michael Graff, on the death of Earl Badu

Big buzz earlier this month when Michael Graff‘s story on the suicide of former University of Maryland basketball walk-on Earl Badu hit SB Nation‘s longform wing: You know the wish can’t come true, but people…
March 28, 2013
Voice, tension, humor, quest and theme: CRMA finalists, Profiles category

Voice, tension, humor, quest and theme: CRMA finalists, Profiles category

In a recent edition of Storyboard’s Annotation Tuesday!, GQ’s Amy Wallace talked about the crossover between narrative and profile writing. “While I get that the two (genres) are distinct, I…
March 22, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 1

Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 1

In November and December, Texas Monthly's Pamela Colloff wrote a two-part series on the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison in the murder of his…
March 19, 2013