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By Ruth Tam teve Almond has lived many lives in pursuit of his most elusive dream: publishing a novel. He’s been an investigative journalist, tortured poet and author. Before he published “Al...

https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/writing-advice-story-construction-voice-steve-almond/

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is our final dispatch from the 2024 Power of Narrative conference. For earlier posts, see deadline narratives by a Wall Street Journal podcast team, the braided structure us...

https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/nonfiction-books-organizing-notes-interviewing-chronology/

By Jacqui Banaszynski t’s awards’ season in the journalism industry, and with that comes your free continuing education. And with it comes a chance to refresh and refocus your journalism — ...

https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/journalism-awards-free-j-school/

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth dispatch from the 2024 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. For previous posts, see deadline narratives by a Wall Street Journal podcast team, ...

https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/2024-power-of-narrative-be-human-first-when-covering-trauma-and-children/

EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay is a share from our friends at The Poynter Institute, with gratitude. By Roy Peter Clark ll good writers play with words, even when they write about grave matters. The...

https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/writing-language-linquistics-puns-walter-cronkite/

By Jacqui Banaszynski f walls could talk, the tales whispered through the rooms of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong would hold me in thrall. The club is a throwback to another tim...

https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/foreign-correspondents-journalism-history-hong-kong/

By Jacqui Banaszynski recent social media post from a journalist-turned-professor sparked my interest. The professor told a quick story about a student who went into an interview with trepidation...

https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/interviewing-source-relationships-journalism-education-ethics/

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third dispatch from the 2024 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. For the others, see deadline narratives by a Wall Street Journal podcast team, and th...

https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/2024-power-of-narrative-boston-university-empathy-listening-interviewing/

By Line Vaaben uch of my shaping as a journalist traces back 25 years, when I covered a deadly fire in Sweden. But it wasn’t until I returned to the scene a quarter-century later that I realize...

https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/an-old-story-and-new-lessons-about-reporting-trauma/

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of ourdispatches from the 2024 Power of Narrative conference at Boston University. For the first post, see deadline narratives by a Wall Street Journal podcast...

https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/2024-power-of-narrative-story-structure-nonfiction-atavist-seyward-darby/