Advice

Our friend Nigel Duara is delivering a talk in February and was looking for some advice. Specifically, how do you teach the importance of story to an audience of non journalists? Any tips?

Here's his pitch:

The TEDxTalk I intend to give will center on the need for stories.
In news, we often focus on facts. Facts are commodities that we cultivate, we trade and we sometimes use to lead us to more facts. Think about North Korea assembling a nuclear submarine. They begin with next to nothing — no research and development, no blueprints and few, if any, building materials. And yet by barter, threat, bribes and theft, they get what they need. Facts, like the steel and screws and propulsion system,…