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Michael Paterniti: Projecting Stories

Michael Paterniti: Projecting Stories

Bestselling author and GQ contributor Michael Paterniti shares stories on his reporting travels in Burma and his 'workman-like' attitude toward writing
October 23, 2015
Leslie Jamison: The Possibilities of the Personal

Leslie Jamison: The Possibilities of the Personal

The author of The Empathy Exams on whether empathy can be taught and how personal experience and specificities can link to abstract inquiries
October 21, 2015
Nieman hosts “Made in Boston: Stories of Invention and Innovation”

Nieman hosts “Made in Boston: Stories of Invention and Innovation”

In a lively evening of storytelling at historic Faneuil Hall on Oct. 6, the Nieman Foundation hosted “Made in Boston: Stories of Invention and Innovation,” one of the inaugural HUBweek…
October 19, 2015
Geraldine Brooks: “You might aspire to art but it better start as craft”

Geraldine Brooks: “You might aspire to art but it better start as craft”

Geraldine BrooksAustralian-born Geraldine Brooks was a prize-winning journalist before becoming a critically acclaimed novelist. Brooks, a Columbia Journalism School graduate and a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent who covered…
October 9, 2015

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
How to Tell Powerful Narratives on Instagram

How to Tell Powerful Narratives on Instagram

Long-form narrative writer Neil Shea finds new storytelling possibilities in short posts on Instagram
September 23, 2015
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…
September 16, 2015

Annotation Tuesday! (Back-to-School Edition) Josh Roiland and His ‘Literary Journalism in America’ Syllabus

Below is an annotated version of my syllabus for the class “Literary Journalism in America.” I’ve taught this class eight times: five as part of the SAGES program at Case…
August 25, 2015

E.L. Doctorow: “There is only narrative”

The late historical novelist visited the Nieman Foundation in 1977, where he explained why there might be less of a difference between fiction and non-fiction than journalists expect
August 7, 2015
The Narrative Appeal of Documentary Theater

The Narrative Appeal of Documentary Theater

Why journalists are turning to playwriting to express the 'dramatic truth' at the heart of their stories
July 29, 2015