Notable Narratives

A true crime podcast that is more about truth than crime

The third post of the revived "Audio Danger" series explores the reporting that revealed indigenous lives "Stolen" in a residential school in Canada

By Julia Barton • May 8, 2023

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2023 Power of Narrative: Prepping for profiles

Washington Post profile writer Geoff Edgers loads up on advance research and background interviews in advance of interviewing a celebrity

By Madeline Bodin • April 27, 2023

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A podcaster follows a then-cop into the breach of the U.S. Capitol

The second post of the revived "Audio Danger" series analyzes the powerful storytelling behind an episode of the podcast "Will Be Wild"

By Julia Barton • April 26, 2023

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From the Editor

What happens to the investigators who see what the rest of us don’t — or won’t?

By Jacqui Banaszynski
April 25, 2023

A daring and likely controversial story in The New York Times Magazine profiles the crime detectives who studied the mass shooting of 20 children

Strictly Q&A

Six profiles and a first-person approach give dignity to the many faces of homelessness

By Trevor Pyle
April 21, 2023

A reporter for the Chicago Reader teams with a freelance photographer to document the personal cost of society's "lattice of failure"

Story Craft

Reporting and writing scenes: The foundational building block of stories

By Lauren Kessler
April 20, 2023

In Narrative Elements 2, Lauren Kessler explores the multiple methods of reporting required to collect the raw material for meaningful scenes

Narrative News

A new best-of collection of audio storytelling honors narrative podcasting

By Julia Barton
April 19, 2023

Julia Barton turned her public radio career to the development of story podcasts and now revives the Storyboard series "Audio Danger"

From the Editor

Ready, fire, aim! aka type, send, think!

By Jacqui Banaszynski
April 18, 2023

More evidence about the danger of sharing draft stories — or Pentagon documents — via cyberspace

Personal Essays

What’s in a name? When it comes to podcasting, it can be confusing

By Samantha Hodder
April 14, 2023

A Canadian radio journalist fell in love with serial narrative podcasts, and is determined to help them find their known place at the storytelling table

Why's This So Good?

An annotated guide to narrative magic

By Madeline Bodin
April 12, 2023

Pulitzer-Prize winning feature writer Lane DeGregory shares the techniques behind her vivid storytelling in a new anthology of her stories

From the Editor

Ruts on the road of a writing career

By Jacqui Banaszynski
April 11, 2023

Progress in in life is seldom a steady line forward or up, but the detours and loop-arounds will get you ahead of you learn from them

Notable Narratives

John Lennon, Jimmy Breslin and (deadline) narrative as the sum of its parts

By Lauren Kessler
April 7, 2023

Narrative Elements 1: A narrative nonfiction writer and teacher starts a series that explores narrative journalism element by element

From the Editor

Interviewing as the star of the show

By Jacqui Banaszynski
April 4, 2023

The movie version of the "She Said" investigation into Harvey Weinstein is a study in the art of the follow-up question

Personal Essays

Getting out of your head ~ and out of the way of a true story

By Dale Keiger
April 6, 2023

For the best stories in his career, a magazine writer had to pay attention to what the story was telling him — and sometimes take long walks

Notable Narratives

How a 19th century widow stopped the presses — and pioneered deadline reporting

By Lauren Kessler
March 29, 2023

Miriam Leslie inherited a media empire from her husband, then reinvented it with journalism we take for granted today

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