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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

'I Have No Tolerance For Being Bored'

… over at Nieman Storyboard. Good stuff. Like this: Is there anything narrative journalism does that can't be done by some other type of print or online story?

Narrative journalism is not about delivering information. It's about delivering the experience of something. That's what other kinds of journalism, with sidebars and timelines and hypertext and graphics and mapping—all the wonderful things that journalism can do to convey information—none of those things even attempts to deliver the sense of experience.

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