Angel Jennings of The Los Angeles Times talks about the value of drawing on personal experience to guide stories. | Continue reading
BU Power of Narrative: Renowned writing coach Roy Peter Clark shares four that helped him stay productive during the pandemic year. | Continue reading
A virtual keynote conversation at the Boston University narrative conference focuses on the techniques and ethics of intimacy journalism. | Continue reading
In two profiles of place from New York Times reporters, Sarah Lyall writes about the newsroom and Dan Barry about taking his mother home. | Continue reading
We offer a look back at posts about the work of The Washington Post sports journalist, who was named the 2021 Red Smith Award winner. | Continue reading
A science historian lays a perfect metaphor into the painful true story of Laika, the dog who went to space in Soviet Sputnik 2 in 1957. | Continue reading
Freelancer Francesca Mari explores housing inequity with the story of a homeless poet who protects unoccupied properties in her native L.A. | Continue reading
Katie Engelhart's new book on right-to-die issues includes an annotated magazine story recently featured in Storyboard this month. | Continue reading
Anne Barker has reported from the Middle East and Indonesia for the Australian Broadcasting Corp., mixing breaking news with personal stories. | Continue reading
How a retired sports journalist turned daily exercise into daily art into a rediscovery of storytelling and now into a book. | Continue reading
The profile of an Oregon woman who used an underground assistance network is part of Engelhart's new book on right-to-die issues. | Continue reading
The pursuit of a mystery dating to the India-Pakistan Partition seduced Ellen Barry, as it had countless reporters before her. | Continue reading
The stories of individuals lost to COVID, in the U.S. and around the world, should not get lost in the collective. | Continue reading
Winners that were featured in Storyboard interviews revealed how journalists worked during a challenging news year. | Continue reading
Trevor Hughes of USA Today draws on his small-town upbringing to show respect for the rural lives he writes about. | Continue reading
The Washington Post "Voices from the Pandemic" series takes hours of pre-pre-reporting, patient interviews and release of writerly control. | Continue reading
Writing final "life stories" requires sensitive interviewing, strong character development, a structural arc and keen fact-checking. | Continue reading
Tyrone Beason of The Los Angeles Times takes to the road with his notebook and camera to explore racial and political divisions in America. | Continue reading
A New York Times obituary of actress Cicely Tyson, by Wesley Morris, is sprinkled with "gold coins" of writing. | Continue reading
A best-we-can list of 2021 conferences that feature workshops and networking on the narrative journalism craft. | Continue reading
The importance of journalism in society may not seem to affect things in the moment, but is essential to the archive of truth. | Continue reading
uriosity grounds all good journalism. Following up on curiosity — wondering about everything, and then caring to find out — is what makes journalism soar. Lane DeGregory finds and follows stories that give nonfiction storytelling loft and range. From her 2009 Pulitzer Prize for “ … | Continue reading
How turning a worn cliché or adage or aphorism into a new thought can breathe originality in a story, whether fiction or nonfiction. | Continue reading
ProPublica rescued banned video from Parler posts of the insurrection to archive an origin story of a historic day. | Continue reading
A science frelancer finds small morning rituals to shake off COVID malais and regain a writing rhythm. Her advice: Just do it! | Continue reading
Ferris Jabr followed a famed forest ecologist into the woods to explore her theories of the symbiotic connections between trees and fungi. | Continue reading
Resetting writing goals for the year can start with small daily practices, including free writes and writing to prompts. | Continue reading
The daily practice of building a public countdown to the presidential inauguration inspired a retired sports editor to tell stories. | Continue reading
Marty Baron's retirement letter to the staff of The Washington Post expresses the foundational ethic of public service journalism. | Continue reading
y now, you’ve no doubt seen a few dozen — or several thousand — of the creative memes featuring Bernie’s Chair. Or is it properly thought of as Bernie’s Mittens? Maybe we need an art naming contest: “Bernie on a Chair in Jacket and Mittens.” Has the echo of “Girl with a Pearl Ear … | Continue reading
Word master Roy Peter Clark reflects on the inaugural poem by Amanda Gorman, and the power of words to speak to the times. | Continue reading
The nation's first youth poet laureate ushers in Joe Biden's presidency with words ranging from Hamilton to hip-hop, scripture to slavery. | Continue reading
uestion to a successful writer (newspapers, magazines, book) who now does contract editing for top mastheads: What are your expectations for a clips search when a writer pitches a story? Answer: That they did one. After we stopped laughing, we got down to specifics. I asked the s … | Continue reading
Writing coach Roy Peter Clark of The Poynter Institute analyzes the language of "engagement" in a lead about the U.S. Capitol riots. | Continue reading
As Andrea Pitzer's newest book, "Icebound," is released, revisit our annotation with her Outside magazine piece about the reporting journey. | Continue reading
The Pulitzer-winning journalist is giving a lifetime of notes to the New York Historical Society. The Times' Dan Barry takes us on a tour. | Continue reading
When the U.S. Capitol was assaulted by a violent mob on Jan. 6, 2020, journalists on the scene stayed steady to chronicle history. | Continue reading
A New York Times team zeroed in on a single, eclectic corner of Queens early in the pandemic to show the ruthless indifference of COVID. | Continue reading
The relentless coverage demands of 2020 were met with courage, talent and grace. It needs to continue. | Continue reading
Reporting as a foreigner and reporting with empathy seem in conflict, but are the underpinnings of the best of our work. | Continue reading
Describing the specific and relevant place in which events take place can put readers in a scene and add narrative art to journalism. | Continue reading
The Storyboard editor's short list of her favorite 2020 fiction reads that drawn on reality, but turns it so we can consider it anew. | Continue reading
Storyboard is a trove of lifetime learning about the craft. We offer some of the most practical posts from the past year. | Continue reading
Your pageviews showed a strong interest in a range of stories, and a keen desire to peek behind the curtain of high-end storywork | Continue reading
The pop culture portrayal of reporters in movies and TV shows mirrors and shapes public perception of the press. | Continue reading
Two bicycle riders met going opposite directions on an empty road. Their reverse journeys and reverse names became the stuff of story and structure. | Continue reading
line from a 1993 story about gun violence in America has stayed with me all these years. It was by DeNeen Brown of The Washington Post, called “Getting Ready to Die Young,” and featured young people across Washington, D.C., most of them Black, who were so resigned to a violent de … | Continue reading
Novice podcaster Isabelle Roughol on the love of journalism that "lets you enter infinite worlds." Here's a look at her pivot. | Continue reading