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‘Good writing and good reporting reinforce each other. Period.’

Narrative was the vehicle selected for this reporting journey.

By grounding stories in a broader context, their messages are better understood.

On the Web, ‘Black Hawk Down’ enhanced its credibility and the readers’ experience.

No. Imparting information ought to be enough.

Images of war are raw, dirty, ugly, personal and disturbing. And they ought to be.

Vivid images of war and famine make human misery impossible to ignore.

A Hutu man who did not support the genocide had been imprisoned in a concentration camp, starved, and attacked with machetes. He managed to survive, and after he was freed…

Mark Kramer, who directs a narrative journalism conference each year at Boston University, opens our series of articles by asserting that “narrative writing is returning to newspapers.” The reasons are…

A new section called “Narrative Matters” began appearing last summer in Health Affairs, a bimonthly policy journal. As Founding Editor John K. Iglehart wrote, “I never regarded publishing material that…