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WriterL
A subscription-only listserve focusing on literary journalism. Co-founded by Jon Franklin, author of Writing for Story, and Lynn Franklin, who also moderates the discussion.
River Teeth
A biannual journal of nonfiction narrative.
Points of Entry
Subtitled "Cross-currents in Storytelling," this journal advocates narrative in journalism and journalism education.
Nieman on Narrative
Special issue of Nieman Reports.
Narrative Conference
Read about the 2001 Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference in Boston. See reviews of numerous speakers, including Rick Bragg, Tom French, and Isabel Wilkerson.
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Sports
First and Long
A white public school and a black private school in Milwaukee join together to field a football team. Greg Borowski of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel follows them through their first season together. This could have been turned into an four-part series that strains to keep the reader's interest. Instead, it appears in one really long take, from practice in the August heat, through the struggles to win a single game, to the November finale.
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Tales Under 2,000 Words
Sure six-part packages that took eight months to report are great, but here's a collection of shorter pieces that show the power of story.
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Classics
The best stories last beyond the next morning's edition.
3 Little Words
Roy Peter Clark's "breakfast serial" chronicles a family struggling with AIDS. Published in the St. Petersburg Times in 1996, it was broken up into 29 chapters, each less than 1,000 words.
Black Hawk Down
Mark Bowden's detailed account of the Somalia fiasco. How many other newspaper series do you know that were made into Hollywood blockbusters?
More Classics...
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