had a nerdy emo convo with the amazing @cmtapper.bsky.social for the @niemanstoryboard.org podcast. we got into journeys of self-worth, my lifelong journaling practice, stories within stories, editing, as well as Sade, Whitney, SZA, and the power of the word, "I" niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/09/d...

This week's @niemanstoryboard.org podcast features @cmtapper.bsky.social's moving and heartfelt conversation with @danyelsmith.bsky.social, about building the confidence to tell your own story. Give it a listen. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/09/d... #booksky #podcasts #longreads

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. apnews.com/article/chic...

I need more “late bloomer” stories! Tell me about the things that you did at 50+ that you never thought you’d do or finally got to do! And if you have examples that aren’t you, bring ‘em!

"Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I wasn't aware of Mark's Storyboard newsletter (a pub of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism @ Harvard) but the links are so good, especially a piece by Lauren Kessler on reporting and writing scenes. Honored to have a shoutout from Carly Stern about my craft essay for Lit Hub. tinyurl.com/bdef6mh2

Coverage of Mario's case needs to give the context of *where* he's being deported to. At least 40 journos have fled El Salvador in 2025. There were 789 attacks against the press in 2024. @elfaro.net moved its offices to Costa Rica in 2023. We don't know what will happen to Mario in ES.

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @kerryhowley.bsky.social @nymag.com, Kari Howard, @miasato.bsky.social, @karenpalmer.bsky.social, @brendanomeara.bsky.social, Justin Heckert. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/03/s... #journalism #longreads #storytelling #booksky

The International Women’s Media Foundation has announced the 2025 Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism grantees. Howard, former @niemanstoryboard.org editor, championed ambitious storytelling — and this year’s winners carry that legacy forward. Read more about the grantees:

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @michaelkruse.bsky.social and Bill Duryea on a 16-year partnership, plus @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @danwilsonmusic.bsky.social, @hco96.bsky.social, and Alice Driver. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/26/e... #longreads #journalism #booksky

Did @markarms.bsky.social's @niemanstoryboard.org podcast with Bill.

This week on the @niemanstoryboard.org podcast, I was thrilled to talk with @michaelkruse.bsky.social and his longtime editor, Bill Duryea, about editor-reporter relationships and their 16-year collaboration at the @tampabaytimes.bsky.social and @politico.com. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/25/m...

Many Cascade PBS journalists I admire are losing their jobs. Seattle is also losing a valuable piece of its news ecosystem. I think of the many journalists scattered throughout local newsrooms who passed through Cascade PBS/Crosscut at some point, freelanced there, or got their start there.

A lot of people have seized on how much work it took to find my four BAD COMPANY protagonists, so it was fun to talk to @niemanstoryboard.org about it. imo narrative work absolutely requires putting in the effort/time to find the right characters. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/m...

My Friday @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter: @greenwell.bsky.social on finding your book's main characters + @mdbell79.bsky.social on dialogue, @skyepillsbury.com talks to @kalilaholt.bsky.social about "Heavyweight"'s return. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/f... #booksky #longreads #podcasts

This @niemanstoryboard.org interview/annotation was one of the most fun I've done. The Q&A is mostly nuts and bolts about how I actually wrote a book, while the annotation is for the craft nerds. 🤩 I think there's a lot in here for aspiring narrative nonfiction writers!

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

At @niemanstoryboard.org, thrilled to feature a conversation + annotated book chapter from @greenwell.bsky.social's “Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream.” By Carly Stern. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/19/m... #booksky #longreads

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Interactive storytelling with @newyorker.com's Sam Wolson, plus @phillymag.com on 50 years of "Fresh Air," @tommytomlinson.bsky.social, @columjournreview.bsky.social, @transom.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/12/t... #longreads #journalism

🚨... and we've got JOBS.🚨 We're hiring a senior producer and producers for this as-yet unnamed podcast. Come help me invent this thing! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica

Having trouble expressing the excitement I'm feeling, seeing a new Hanif Abdurraqib essay series at @longreads.com.

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

For the @niemanstoryboard.org podcast, here's my conversation with Sam Wolson, the Interactives Visual Features Editor for @newyorker.com, who produced a moving interactive story about a mother and her trans teenager. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/11/n... #longreads #podcasts

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @jasonkpargin.bsky.social, @tromano.bsky.social, @christianelliott.me, @timherrera.bsky.social @rusty.todayintabs.com, @jiatolentino.bsky.social, @indiejournalists.bsky.social, @transjournalists.org niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/05/l...

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

Every time @rusty.todayintabs.com shares a #longread, my heart skips a beat. todayintabs.com/p/thursday-longreads?_bhlid=c607bc4f9efffbe8b5af638e778e80ff9e5e7c47&last_resource_guid=Post%3Ad39726ab-9d73-4725-8315-8ed4f9f3ff90

Today at @niemanstoryboard.org, @tromano.bsky.social sits down with @jasonkpargin.bsky.social about his TikTok storytelling evolution. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/04/c...

When I come across a conversation this exciting, I wish I were still teaching so I could share it with students. While listening to @niemanstoryboard.org podcast with author Dana A. Williams and Storyboard contributor Christina M. Tapper, I ordered Toni at Random from my local bookstore.

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org — ten storytelling moments from the summer. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/29/1... #journalism #reporting #booksky #longreads #podcasts

Back online and resharing this great piece by Erika Hayasaki for @niemanstoryboard.org on @saragoo.bsky.social's journey to writing KULEANA. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/22/h... #journalism #booksky #longreads

A few years from now, American concentration camps will be a powerful and entrenched interest —donating to GOP politicians, hiring DC and statehouse lobbyists, seen as local job creators, pumping out self-serving propaganda, capturing regulators, and basically following the MLM path.

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: #podcasts #journalism #longreads #booksky niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/15/r...

For this week's @niemanstoryboard.org podcast, I spoke with @mallarytenore.bsky.social about her excellent new reported memoir, “Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery.” Lots of lessons about resisting tidy narratives when telling stories. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/14/m...

Just arrived in my mailbox. Congrats @heyjackson.bsky.social!

The phenomenon that's sweeping across the nation! It's Pitch Club! It was generously featured by @markarms.bsky.social in the @niemanstoryboard.org newsletter. Issue 3 of Pitch Club features Kim Cross. I have journos audio annotate pitches. You read a little. Listen a little. Learn a lot!

Honored to be included, Mark! Thanks!

The 7th annual STORY Foundation Prize, judged by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, opens on August 15th. Check out all the details below. ⬇️⬇️⬇️We're looking forward to reading your stories!

I've really been enjoying the new journalism podcast from @niemanfoundation.bsky.social and @markarms.bsky.social, and this episode with Lane DeGregory had SO many inspiring tidbits about where and how to find stories: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @newyorker.com, Jane Mayer, Erika Hayasaki, @lesleymmblume.bsky.social, @vanityfair.com, @mauricenow.bsky.social, @jamiattenberg.bsky.social, and @brendanomeara.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/08/a...

I have ordered this book after reading the NYT piece today. Thank you, Shoshana Walter, for this important work. I can't wait to read it! 🙏

Thank you to everyone who read my family’s story in @texasmonthly.bsky.social. The response in letters, emails, messages, comments, and from people I’ve met in person has been overwhelming. We are so grateful. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Honored and thrilled to join @brendanomeara.bsky.social on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast today. We talked about the state of journalism and storytelling, some early #longreads lore, and why I love taking voice lessons. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Most people can’t quite grasp how it feels to read this, but imagine if the federal government commanded every agency to form task forces charged with finding new ways to humiliate you. Then imagine every institution in your life not only folds but starts participating. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

"I think we're always waiting for the perfect story, and it's kind of like waiting for the perfect time to have a kid.” niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/01/a...

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

Honored and thrilled to join @brendanomeara.bsky.social on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast today. We talked about the state of journalism and storytelling, some early #longreads lore, and why I love taking voice lessons. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring Lane DeGregory / @tampabaytimes.bsky.social, @propublica.org, @motherjones.com, @evaholland.bsky.social, @defector.com, @transom.bsky.social, and Kim Cross. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/08/01/a... #longreads #journalism #podcasts