In the first scene of the last episode of “Breaking Bad,” Walter White opens the glove box of a car he’s trying to steal and the case to a Marty Robbins cassette falls out. At the end of the scene, … Read more
Today’s theme: courage. Pinned, for your storytelling pleasure, we’ve got stories in several shades of bravery, by talented narrative journalists from Kansas City, Milwaukee, Boston, New York, Tampa and Washington, D.C. You can find all of these, and more, on … Read more
Pinned for your storytelling pleasure, a roundup of recent great reads, vids, tips, etc.: In case you missed it, Part 1: Gay Talese and Elon Green annihilated Storyboard traffic records this week with their critically acclaimed annotation of “Frank … Read more
Robert Caro Nieman Class of 1966 The bestselling biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Caro has won every major literary prize — some of them, such as the … Read more
Anne Hull Class of 1995 A longtime Washington Post reporter, Hull won the Pulitzer for Public Service in 2008, for reporting, with Dana Priest, that exposed substandard … Read more
Kevin Cullen Nieman Class of 2003 A longtime Metro columnist at the Boston Globe, Cullen shared a 2003 Pulitzer for investigative reporting on the sex abuse scandal within … Read more
Julia Keller Nieman Class of 1998 A former Chicago Tribune reporter and cultural critic, Keller won the 2005 Pulitzer for feature writing, for her “gripping, meticulously reconstructed … Read more
Dexter Filkins Nieman Class of 2007 A war correspondent and author, Filkins became a New Yorker staff writer in January 2011, after spending more than a decade at the … Read more