Continuing the “future of narrative” theme for this week, today we look at some of the experimental stories discussed at the first-ever Boston Bookfuturists Meetup on January 29, hosted by Joanne McNeil of Tomorrow Museum. Nieman Lab director Josh Benton attended and brought back some links to interesting new approaches to narrative.
The discussion touched on “Mr. Plimpton’s [...]
Tag Archives: The Washington Post
Boston Bookfuturists look at mapping, charting new narratives
February 11, 2010 – 11:48 am
The Washington Post Story Lab: letting readers in on how sausage gets made
November 30, 2009 – 1:18 pm
Is the future of story watching story unfold? Participating in story as it unfolds? The Washington Post’s Story Lab (which had a soft launch last week and official debut today) is about to find out. Marc Fisher, enterprise editor for local news, heads up a group of nine Post staffers assigned to the project (though [...]
Marc Fisher on The Washington Post’s new Story Lab
November 30, 2009 – 1:16 pm
I spoke this morning with Marc Fisher, enterprise editor for local news at The Washington Post. Fisher is heading up the organization’s new Story Lab, which launched this week. See our next post for the Storyboard take on the Lab.
Can you tell me a little about the genesis of the Story Lab?
We restructured our whole [...]
Narrative journalism’s future: fighting words in some places
November 2, 2009 – 3:18 pm
Blog posts and articles on narrative journalism pinged around the Halloween weekend like eyeballs at a zombie food fight—and according to Washingtonian.com, an actual fight broke out at The Washington Post. While the Post’s Henry Allen (a Pulitzer winner for criticism) was reportedly knocking down and punching a younger feature writer over a disagreement related [...]
Joel Achenbach and the storytellers’ union
October 30, 2009 – 3:42 pm
Lots of the usual suspects are blogging and Tweeting about Joel Achenbach’s piece on the future of narrative journalism that ran in yesterday’s Washington Post. Some people have excerpted interesting bits, such as the great line that “story is the original killer app,” while others have attempted to respond.
Today on the Storyboard, we wanted to [...]
The best-kept secret on medical narratives
October 8, 2009 – 1:07 pm
A doctor gets shingles and finds himself unable to refuse unnecessary tests. A student in need of a kidney transplant gets offers of marriage, with free health care attached. A national news celebrity struggles with bipolar disorder.
You might not expect to find these stories in a research and policy journal. But since 1999, Health [...]
