Writing to find out what you want to write
By Jacqui Banaszynski Last Friday, my penultimate Friday newsletter as editor of Storyboard invited you to consider whether you’re the right next person for the role. (I wrote that sentence as a small...
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Daring to bring humor and wonder to serious subjects
By Laurie Hertzel Tom Whipple’s recent story in the Times of London about the reappearance of beavers in Devon, England, could have been a deeply serious science piece, laden with facts, numbers and...
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A new freelance business works like a “dating app for fact-checking”
By Madeline Bodin Seattle-based freelance journalist Wudan Yan is a founder, producer and host of The Writers’ Co-op podcast. She’s a business coach, a content marketing writer and an advocate for fair...
View ArticlePygmy nuthatches, fountain pens, yellowed clips and time ahead
By Jacqui Banaszynski More than a few friends have asked what I planned to write my last essay as the editor of Nieman Storyboard (published Sept. 27, 2024). One headed his email: “Here’s to a...
View Article13 ways to consider an interview
By Dale Keiger I once estimated how many bylined pieces I’ve published in my five decades of scribbling for money. Including everything from 300-word bleats to 8,000-word slabs, I believe I’ve written...
View ArticleUpcoming 2024 Narrative Non-Fiction Prizes
The Nobels announced last week mostly honor achievement in the sciences (with one prize for literature), but if you think no bells ring for the narrative nonfiction practitioner, think again. The True...
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Finding a quiet voice in the center of America’s screaming immigration debate
By Trevor Pyle When Ruby Cramer of The Washington Post drove up to Norfolk, Mass., it was in pursuit of a story that couldn’t be more timely — or timeless. Cramer had seen local news reports about the...
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Effective editing: Get on the phone to talk through ideas and problems
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...
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A profile of a newspaper press becomes a requiem for an era
By Trevor Pyle Thomas Curwen is one of those newspaper veterans who has done it all. During his 40-year career at the Los Angeles Times, he’s served as an outdoors editor, a Book Review editor and a...
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Effective editing: “I’m in service of you, the writer”
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...
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