Reading Narrative Journalism (2024)

Students have often asked me: what’s the best way to see narrative journalists “putting it all together?”— that is, how do leading reporters move from (1) getting a story idea, to (2) deciding on the legwork they need to do, to (3) actually writing a story? In… Read More

Searching around the web, it’s easy enough to locate very fine samples of syllabi focusing on the teaching of literary or narrative journalism. The IALJS has a terrific list of its own, and there are other excellent samples you can find, e.g. from Josh Roiland (annotated on the… Read More

A Teaching Thought:  I’ve often wondered why there isn’t more frequent “currency” between visual studies (particularly art history and photography) and the study of narrative journalism. Aside from the obvious synergy with documentary photography in Jacob Riis’ or James Agee’s work, or the example of Joan Didion’s… Read More