Chip Scanlan

Jun 6, 2024 | niemanstoryboard.org | Chip Scanlan |Joshua Rothman |Henry Finder

Tagged with artificial intelligence Interviewing narrative structure Organizing notes Profiles By Chip Scanlan Journalists who write profiles don’t go in cold. They pre-report to prepare for crucial interviews. They read widely and research previous stories that have been written about their subject. They think through questions they need to ask. To profile Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian computer scientist considered the godfather of artificial intelligence, New Yorker writer Joshua...

Mar 22, 2024 | niemanstoryboard.org | Chip Scanlan |Ellen Barry

Tagged with covering mental health Ethics Immersion Reporting Interviewing Law Source relationships By Chip Scanlan The best narrative writers know they need not just to interview after the fact, but to observe in the moment. They want to be on the scene, where they see characters and action unfold in real place and real time, providing a less-filtered view of complexity and humanity. Policy and reframes take a back seat to lives as they are really lived. Ellen Barry, who covers mental...

Feb 5, 2024 | niemanstoryboard.org | Chip Scanlan |John Branch

Tagged with John Branch Multimedia storytelling narrative structure Reconstructed stories Snow Fall By Chip Scanlan The best storytellers are driven by an insatiable need to know. Give them a mystery and they will dedicate themselves to trying to solve it. That relentless inquisitiveness propelled John Branch of The New York Times on a three-year odyssey to find out what happened to two American mountain climbers who perished 50 years ago on an Argentine mountaintop. “It tickled my reporter’s...

Jan 24, 2024 | niemanstoryboard.org | Chip Scanlan |Rachel Corbett

Tagged with arts beat reporting Court reporting financial True Crime By Chip Scanlan Every beat has its own allure. The dramatic stories of crime, criminals and their victims draw reporters to the cops beat. The best science journalists revel in data, discoveries, evidence and the challenges of determining their veracity. For more than a decade as a writer and editor, Rachel Corbett has mined the world of art for compelling stories. “I’ve always been interested in art,” she told me about her...

Jul 19, 2023 | niemanstoryboard.org | Chip Scanlan |Samantha Michaels |Mark Helenowski |Ryan Little

By Chip Scanlan Samantha Michaels was reading The New York Times one day in 2019 when she read a story about a case where the punishment seemed vastly disproportionate to the crime.