Notable Narratives

From 2006 to 2010, the Nieman Narrative Digest featured outstanding examples of narrative journalism drawn from newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Editors for the site were Nell Lake, Constance Hale and Andrea Pitzer.

In June 2010, the Nieman Foundation folded key elements of the Digest into the Nieman Storyboard site, including the Notable Narratives. What follows is the full archive of those stories.

USA Today’s Katrina anniversary project: stories from the second line

Katy Butler shows the bitter side of medical intervention


Thomas Lake takes on the Brothers Grimm in “The Golden Boy and the Invisible Army”


Michael Kruse profiles Tampa Bay fugitive


Planet Money’s Adam Davidson solves a Haitian mystery and beats expectations


Joe Gaetjens’ magic at the 1950 World Cup (and everything it didn’t save him from)


Paul Nicklen goes to extremes with Polar Obsession


Aminatta Forna’s “The Last Vet”: a dog’s life


Rick Moody’s “Amazing Tale” invites readers to step right up


Meg Laughlin chronicles survivors’ suffering in Haiti


The expansive, defiant “Women of Troy”


Charles Pierce on the lost decade


Mark Johnson

Targeting the Good Cell


Justin Heckert

Lost in the Waves


Thomas Maier and John Paraskevas

Fallout: Brookhaven National Lab’s Legacy in the Pacific