Sign up for the Nieman Storyboard newsletter, delivered every Friday in your inbox. Dear Storyboard community: For your Labor Day weekend reading, I thought I’d ...
The award-winning journalist discusses her new book, ‘Catch the Devil,’ for the Season Two premiere of the Nieman Storyboard podcast ...
Keith shares the story behind her cover photo for New York magazine’s ‘The Trap at 26 Federal Plaza’ and the importance of photojournalism in documenting history The author of ‘Wards of the State’ on ...
In an occasional series, Storyboard examines the elusive art of the story pitch. We talk to writers and editors about their tips, tricks and pet peeves, and annotate some real pitches. “They’re often ...
This is an edited version of a talk Laurie Hertzel gave at the 2005 Nieman Seminar for Narrative Editors. Her remarks were part of a joint presentation with Rick Meyer, who spoke about developing ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: For this installment in Storyboard’s occasional series on effective editing, we bring readers a conversation with an independent editor who works one-on-one with writers and has built a ...
Born in Tulsa, Singer maintained his Oklahoma connection throughout his life and career. His 1984 book "Funny Money”—first published as a series of stories in The New Yorker—told the story of a small ...
Thirteen-year-old Simav Wooleh took the stage with a disarming smile in front of the audience gathered in a Beirut café. If she was nervous, the only thing that betrayed her was a tendency to fidget ...
Seven years ago, David Grann found himself staring at a faded journal in a digital archive. It belonged to John Byron, grandfather of the poet Lord Byron, and documented his journey as a midshipman on ...
In the aftermath of loss, platitudes and silver linings abound. They creep into greeting cards and consolations that attempt to put words to the unthinkable and instill hope in the possibility of ...
For his story, “Inside the life of a 24/7 streamer: ‘What more do you want?’,” Harwell traveled to Texas to meet Emily, and he wrote it with the understanding that he was bridging two very different ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the spirit of transparency, Korrina Duffy wrote this post after attending a weeklong writing workshop I teach through the Madeline Island School of Arts. “The more specific, the more ...
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