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Nov 13, 2024 | 
niemanstoryboard.org | Jacqui Banaszynski
Last Friday, my penultimate Friday newsletter as editor of Storyboard invited you to consider whether you’re the right next person for the role. (I wrote that sentence as a small insider wink at my treasured word-nerd friends out there — those who know what penultimate means and what it doesn’t. I also know the proper spelling of minuscule — no, it’s not mini-scule. But now I’m just being a snob. And, truth is, I usually have to look it up to be sure, because “mini” makes so much more sense.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
niemanstoryboard.org | Jacqui Banaszynski
More than a few friends have asked what I planned to write my last essay as the editor of Nieman Storyboard (published Sept. 27, 2024).
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
niemanstoryboard.org | Jacqui Banaszynski
Areporter friend once told me that interviewing, for him, was a “full-body sport.” His toss-off comment was a Yes! moment for me. It crystallized why, when I finished a interview, I was so drained. The exhaustion was more than the residual tension that is a standard part of any interview. Rather, it was flat-out, the kind that comes when your full self — all five physical senses plus the sixth of perception — is engaged.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
niemanstoryboard.org | Jacqui Banaszynski
Great job for the right person who has the right passion and knowledge about this important work we call narrative nonfiction: The Nieman Foundation for Journalism, based at Harvard University, is in the hunt for the next editor of Storyboard, the global online resource that covers the art and craft of nonfiction story work.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
niemanstoryboard.org | Jacqui Banaszynski
Tagged with Jacqui Banaszynski Nieman Storyboard Writing By Jacqui Banaszynski More than a few friends have asked what I planned to write my last essay as the editor of Nieman Storyboard (published Sept. 27, 2024). One headed his email: “Here’s to a memorable closing newsletter.” (This from a guy who knows how hard it is to write things that are truly memorable.) Others suggested I needed to write something profound, perhaps a grand statement about the imperative of narrative nonfiction in...
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
niemanstoryboard.org | Jacqui Banaszynski
By Jacqui BanaszynskiLast Friday, my penultimate Friday newsletter as editor of Storyboard invited you to consider whether you’re the right next person for the role. (I wrote that sentence as a small insider wink at my treasured word-nerd friends out there — those who know what penultimate means and what it doesn’t. I also know the proper spelling of minuscule — no, it’s not mini-scule. But now I’m just being a snob.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
niemanstoryboard.org | Jacqui Banaszynski
Tagged with Editing Nieman Foundation for Journalism Nieman Storyboard Nonfiction Narrative Great job for the right person who has the right passion and knowledge about this important work we call narrative nonfiction: The Nieman Foundation for Journalism, based at Harvard University, is in the hunt for the next editor of Storyboard, the global online resource that covers the art and craft of nonfiction story work. If you love this kind of journalism, know what it takes to do it, want to...
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
niemanstoryboard.org | Jacqui Banaszynski
Tagged with Interviewing Journalism Education Listening Nonverbal communication political reporting Political rhetoric The Presidency By Jacqui Banaszynski A reporter friend once told me that interviewing, for him, was a “full-body sport.” His toss-off comment was a Yes! moment for me. It crystallized why, when I finished a interview, I was so drained. The exhaustion was more than the residual tension that is a standard part of any interview. Rather, it was flat-out, the kind that comes when...
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
niemanstoryboard.org | Jacqui Banaszynski
Tagged with 30 note Journalism Journalism Education By Jacqui Banaszynski Work as a journalist long enough, or at least start as a journalist long enough ago, and “-30-” was a standard part of your newsroom language. It was typed at the bottom of every story I sent during my early reporting days. (I liked to add a small flourish, so often used curly dashes, like this: ~ 30 ~. Made the guys in the back shop crazy, but that was half the fun.) Why “-30-?” If you query Dr. Google, you’ll get the...
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
niemanstoryboard.org | Jacqui Banaszynski
By Jacqui Banaszynski Friends and former colleagues from the Upper Midwest have had grand fun in the last few weeks watching a Minnesota vibe infect national politics.
