Journalist’s Trade

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.

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…

In college classes, students read great storytellers and learn how to tell a story.

A local television reporter finds ways to go beyond the usual coverage.

An editor laments the demise of the narrative. And welcomes its return.

‘I want to create a pattern that is instinctively unfamiliar….’

‘The approach of a storyteller seemed more apt….’

When the Five W’s aren’t appetizing, some reporters stir in a bit of fiction.