THE NEW NEW JOURNALISM: CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICAS BEST NONFICTION WRITERS ON THEIR CRAFT PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Robert Boynton | 496 pages | 15 Mar 2005 | Random House USA Inc | 9781400033560 | English | New York, United States NPR Choice page The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who immerse themselves completely in their subjects. Jon Krakauer accompanies a mountaineering expedition to Everest. Ted Conover works for nearly a year as a prison guard. Susan Orlean follows orchid fanciers to reveal an obsessive subculture few knew existed. And like their muckraking early twentieth-century precursors, they are drawn to the most pressing issues of the day: Alex Kotlowitz, Leon Dash, and William Finnegan to race and class; Ron Rosenbaum to the problem of evil; Michael Lewis to boom-and-bust economies; Richard Ben Cramer to the nitty gritty of politics. How do they do it? In these interviews, they reveal the techniques and inspirations behind their acclaimed works, from their felt-tip pens, tape recorders, long car rides, and assumed identities; to their intimate understanding of the way a truly great story unfolds. How to link to this search. From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by 50 contemporary writers, including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver. See A discovery engine for narrative nonfiction: Byliner. A literary journal that explores the boundaries of contemporary and creative nonfiction. Personal essays welcome—including nature, environmental, and travel essays—as well as memoirs, personal critical essays, and literary journalism. Petersburg Times, prolonging the life of print journalism, described by Word on the Street as Gangrey. Chump Change! With thanks to Mark Obbie's page of resources on E-singles. The ebook platform is moving into direct sales and exploring a subscription model. Editing Kindle Singles, David Blum jump-starts his career, with a Web service that is helping to promote a renaissance of novella-length journalism and fiction, known as e-shorts. Creativist is Atavist's Web- based storytelling platform, on which you can tell your own story, using text, video, audio, and more--you can offer your stories on the Creativist app. Adam Clarke Estes calls it "a socially enabled, editor-curated depository of nearly 30, long reads" in an Atlantic story Byliner: The Pandora of Nonfiction Reading , A site for discovering and sharing old and new worlds of nonfiction. See also A discovery engine for narrative nonfiction: Byliner. John Tayman, Nieman Reports. Great stories clipped there but you have to belong to Pinterest to read them, it seems. Longreads: A Digital Renaissance for the Long-form? David Carr, NY Times, How an angler and two government bureaucrats may have saved the Atlantic Ocean. The political battle over the disappearance of the menhaden, a silvery, six-inch fish that's food for larger fish and farmed for omega-3 oils and fertilizer. It is trying to become the central hub for writing by the public at large, as YouTube is for amateur videos. Was it self-defense, or community justice? Also about objectivity in reporting. About audio narratives including digital and radio storytelling Reading these stories is like taking a free workshop in audio narration. Thanks to Nieman Storyboard "breaking down story in every medium" for its excellent articles, links, and analyses of great stories. The literal power of voice: when the audio medium is added to the arsenal of narrative journalism, its impact is hugely amplified. Firstly, the authorial voice is literally heard, direct and unmediated, via the podcast host. This foments a strong bond. Subjectivity is not just possible in podcasting — it is almost essential. But storytelling via the affective power of audio is very different. You want to explain everything, so that the audience appreciates the characters and events in your life just as you do. What made this kid's video go viral? Produced by Transom and PRX. From fieldwork and recording techniques to narrative and ethics, HowSound explores the ins-and-outs of radio storytelling. Archive of HowSound podcasts. The rest is history. As soon as the first tapes were released in , they were an immediate sensation: a remarkably candid portrait of a master politician at work. As degrading as the Nixon tapes had been, the Johnson tapes were just as uplifting. Network newscasts featured them; historical works analyzed them; C-SPAN radio continues to broadcast them for two hours every Saturday afternoon. Audio producers live for it. And they do! I am often sitting like a dope listening to my radio in the parking lot. Julia Barton, Nieman Storyboard, People in Dubuque are going to remember that more than a talking head,' McEvers says. She was the one losing the most sleep over it. It may be helpful to hear Allison's online workshop, Intro to Storytelling , a practical, step-by-step guide to brainstorming on, workshopping and presenting oral stories lifetime access to 2. New sites, such as Cowbird, aim for story-telling that connects us. Newsletter focuses on five core area: Stories of Health, Silence Speaks stories to fight gender- based violence , Witness Tree stories of place and environmental change ,Immigrant Voices, and Women, Girls, and Leadership. This is their story. This is narrative as a rolling multitude of voices; a story that has no controllable ending, fading instead into a network of other tales told by a network of other people. It is the narrative of everyday life, of friends we know well and not-so-well, and the ways we use their narratives to prop up our own. We know this kind of story as deeply as we know language. This has huge implications for writers. This site combining journalism and social media lets you create stories using social media, dragging and dropping in narrative order tweets, photos, videos, comments, snippets, etc. Start listening to one of these as you drive to buy groceries and you'll find yourself sitting in the parking lot, listening to hear the end of the story. Morales, NPR, Watch videos of famous scientists, authors, movie makers and artists telling their stories and be inspired to record and share your own. How people discover content, does video pass the "Mom test"? The first collaboration between Narratively and Symbolia magazine. Symbolia merges comic books, journalism, and interactive to tell amazing stories from around the world--making the news into art. He decided to completely reinvent himself and now is known as Slomo and lives out his life skating at the beach. Russell Baze is the winningest jockey in American history. Yet his name is familiar to only the most avid followers of horse racing. Winslow, National Press Photographers Association, the voice of visual journalists, Links to prize-winning examples of multimedia journalism. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole world, all human life, is one long story. Instead of pitching story to story, you'll be working project to project or gig to gig. And that means reporters who work on projects will need representation. Read also Literary journalism finds new platforms by David L. Ulin L. Times Aggregates links to the best long-form stories on the web. See its Community Picks section, plus Best of best picks in No. Or follow Longreads picks on Twitter. Showcase your work, bringing editors to you. Sell your original work to publishers a la carte. Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, The site from Twitter's co-founders was one year old in , and still mysterious. It pays some writers but not most. Each day Cowbird takes a photo and writes a short story to go with it. You can look these up by category: Curated stories , Most loved , With audio, , Most viewed, etc. We explore the patchwork of the human condition through experimental personal writing. On Medium. So are conflict, voice, gesture, and facial expression. The tales of how clever we were, how wise, how we won, mostly fail. The practised jokes and witty one-liners crash and burn. Honesty matters. Vulnerability matters. Having a place where the story starts and a place it's going is also important. That was not my mother's name' The Guardian, Tips on oral storytelling, from a couple of masters. For example, "Professional oral storytellers don't memorize their stories, says Ellouise Schoettler. You want to remember 'beats' and actions. She quoted Donald Davis as telling people to think of stories as crossing a creek -- you need to get six stones across the creek. You need to know what's supposed to happen -- what series of actions occur. You don't need to remember all the words. A difficult story can powerfully alter not only he who tells it but also they who hear it. From experience to story to prose. When we talk about language arts in our school, we focus on reading and writing instead of nourishing the whole oral and kinesthetic package that is our spoken language. He argues that talking and writing need not be mutually exclusive in language development. An intimate new narrative conference, Cali style Paige Williams, "For the better part of the last decade, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism ran the most popular narrative journalism conference in the country. For three days each spring, hundreds of journalists gathered in Cambridge or Boston to hear notable storytellers talk craft From to , journalist and editor Constance Hale ran the Nieman narrative program, and she oversaw the final conference. The Nieman Foundation ended the conference as a cost-cutting measure, but the public part of our narrative initiative remained online, as the Narrative Digest, the precursor to Nieman Storyboard.