Search results for “writing the book” Showing 1161 results “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 5 Questions for David Finkel David Finkel describes his “deliberate” reporting process at the Nieman FoundationIn selecting David Finkel for one of its “genius” grants in 2012, the MacArthur Foundation described him as “a journalist whose… October 22, 2014 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 5 Questions for Jill Lepore No wonder Jill Lepore describes herself as a “code-switcher.” She’s both a prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Her most… October 6, 2014 Pearls before Breakfast, Reprised Almost anyone who loves narrative journalism or music or social experiments or who simply believes that children are wiser than adults knows the Gene Weingarten story “Pearls Before Breakfast.”In this… September 30, 2014 “The problem of being labelled a confessionalist” If you’ve read Meghan Daum’s terrific essay in the Sept. 29 New Yorker on her decision to remain childless (one of Storyboard’s most recent weekend picks), you’ll want to take a… September 29, 2014 Required Reading, Session Two Welcome to the second session of our discussion with narrative instructors about the stories they’re assigning students this fall. If you missed Monday’s recommendations from Alex Kotlowitz, Doug Foster and… September 9, 2014 Required Reading, Session One As the academic year gets underway, we decided to ask some top narrative journalism instructors what they’re assigning their students to study this semester and why. There are some tried-and-true… September 8, 2014 “Stay away from your phone” Tom HuangTom Huang, the Sunday and enterprise editor at the Dallas Morning News, offered some good ideas for sharpening storytelling skills during a writing panel at last week’s Asian American… August 19, 2014 Annotation: John Jeremiah Sullivan and “Upon This Rock” [Editor’s note: John Jeremiah Sullivan‘s “Upon This Rock” is by now a modern classic of literary journalism: writer rents an RV, experiences a Christian rock festival (and certain revelations) with a… August 1, 2014 Previous 1 … 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 … 117 Next
