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Featured Fellow: Mary Schmich 27 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
Mary Schmich Nieman Class of 1996 When the Pulitzer committee awarded Schmich the 2012 prize for commentary, jurors cited the strength of her “wide range of down-to-earth columns that reflect the cha...
Featured Fellow: Gene Weingarten 26 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
Gene Weingarten Nieman Class of 1988 Weingarten, of the Washington Post, writes long and short and sad and funny hilarious, and “may be the best writer in American journalism,” as one profiler once p...
Featured Fellow: Alma Guillermoprieto 22 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
Alma Guillermoprieto Nieman Class of 2005 Guillermoprieto writes about Latin America for The New Yorker, and for the New York Review of Books and other publications. In 1982, while working as a strin...
One anniversary, two new features 21 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
It’s a big day at Lippmann House — the new class of Nieman Fellows arrived this morning, to begin their year at Harvard. And a special year it is. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism turns 75 in Sept...
Annotation Tuesday! Sebastian Junger and the perfect storm 20 Aug 2013 | 10:17 am
The magazine story behind Sebastian Junger‘s celebrated nonfiction book A Perfect Storm ran in Outside magazine in October 1994. “The Storm” (4,765 words) told the story of the Andrea Gail, a fishing ...
“Detroit: A love story:” Chuck Salter, Fast Company, and a layered, live-storytelling approach to the tale of a desperate city 16 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
Fast Company‘s Chuck Salter recently came up with an innovative way to address the unfolding narrative that is Detroit. The city, long depressed, is now bankrupt. Unemployment stands at double the nat...
Snap Judgment’s Glynn Washington on storytelling influences, NPR, race, narrative intention, pacing and structure 15 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Detroit Week continues here on Storyboard, with an appearance by radio storyteller Glynn Washington, a Motor City native and host of the hot NPR show Snap Judgment. We recently ran Part 1 of our conve...
“Why’s this so good?” No. 82: Rebecca Solnit and “Detroit Arcadia” 13 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
If you’ve been following the recent reports out of Detroit, you know conditions there are dire. This is hardly new. For decades the dominant narrative about the city has been one of failure: economic ...
Nieman Lab summer reading + Barry Hannah + the brain and dramatic arc + a Japanese pitching sensation + a new board 9 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
Pinned this week for your storytelling pleasure: The Recommended board has been especially busy: • Our sister pub Nieman Lab has been engaging in a little summer reading from our Nieman Foundation l...
“Why’s this so good?” No. 81: Lawrence Wright and the “bootleg preacher” 6 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
I’m old enough to have practiced as a state prosecutor for a while, but I still laugh at fart jokes. Regardless of the flatulent punch line, Larry the Cable Guy’s trademark quip, “I don’t care who you...
