Nathan Fielder moves in with Elizabeth Holmes, and Seth Wickersham shadows Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton. Plus: Nikole Hannah-Jones's viral essay

Plus: Remembering Annie Dillard, and the National Book Awards announces its longlist for nonfiction

The editor behind the popular newsletters Oldster and Memoir Land discusses her own journey to writing a memoir, and how journalists can find their voice

The editor behind the popular newsletters Oldster and Memoir Land discusses her own journey to writing a memoir, and how journalists can find their voice

Plus: Sari Botton on the craft of memoir, and what happens when a source becomes the main character

From a seaside village in Massachusetts, I’d see flights leave from Boston. On Sept. 11, two planes left Logan heading for the Twin Towers

Plus: Remembering Gloria Steinem, and writing memoir in the present tense

The producer of podcasts including “We Keep Us Safe,” “Adults in the Room,” and “Lost Patients” on collaborating across newsrooms and finding the big idea within a story

Audio documentary producer Will James on the making of NPR's “We Keep Us Safe.” Plus: How to pitch Slate's features editor

Audio documentary producer Will James on the making of NPR's “We Keep Us Safe.” Plus: How to pitch Slate's features editor

The acclaimed author discusses how words like “grief” fail when writing about the loss of her teenage son James

The Pulitzer finalist and author of “Rehab: An American Scandal” talks about how she approaches human stories that spotlight injustice

The acclaimed author discusses how words like “grief” fail when writing about the loss of her teenage son James

Author Yiyun Li reconsiders the language of loss. Plus: Drawing the line on ethical AI use

The Pulitzer finalist and author of “Rehab: An American Scandal” talks about how she approaches human stories that spotlight injustice

The senior editor for Bloomberg News shares lessons on collaborating with large reporting teams and experimenting with new forms for the Pulitzer-winning story “TrAPPed”

Prize-winning veteran foreign correspondent, editor aims to focus on challenges facing industry, including AI, press freedom, polarization.

How a tiny observation drives a bigger story. Plus: The art of low-stakes writing

The award-winning journalist discusses her new book, ‘Catch the Devil,’ for the Season Two premiere of the Nieman Storyboard podcast

The author of “Catch the Devil” on criminal justice reporting and keeping readers hooked. Plus: Ellie Silverman finds the true story behind a now-viral photo

Plus: Noticing what's in your neighborhood, and a podcasting playbook for students

Plus: Submit your application for the Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism

Plus: What makes an ideal Talk of the Town story? And pitching an editor instead of a publication

Plus: A high school girls’ water polo team fights for gender equity, and breakable rules for writers

Boissoneault, whose proposal won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award in 2024, breaks down how she wrote it

Plus: Lessons from an author after the book comes out, and tell us your favorite stories in song

Plus: Season Two of Nieman Storyboard’s podcast is coming soon, and is an MFA worth it?

For his book “Heartland,” O’Brien visited the basketball legend’s hometown in French Lick, Indiana, to uncover a story never told

The New Yorker staff writer talks about finding the right story structure and working with a family to access medical records and journals

Rachel Aviv's annotations on a woman's schizophrenia diagnosis. Plus: Asking editors the right questions

For his book “Heartland,” O’Brien visited the basketball legend’s hometown in French Lick, Indiana, to uncover a story never told

The author of ‘A Marriage at Sea’ found her voice — and a deep archive of diaries, films, and interviews — to tell the true story of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey

Abumrad and his editor, Ben Adair, created a groundbreaking montage of music and voices for their episode “Enter the Shrine”

Podcast: The Washington Post writer shares his experience covering the intersection of technology, politics, and culture in an era of distrust and division

From the Nieman Storyboard archives: How journalists capture dialogue between a character and friends, strangers, and themselves

Plus: More AI cautionary tales, how to create a book x-ray, and a Nieman Fellow's new book on writing

Plus: Tell us your favorite graduation speech, ProPublica's new podcast, and a rejoinder to AI slop

Rachel Adams-Heard, Polly Mosendz, and Fola Akinnibi looked at local government agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain immigrants in New Mexico

A matrix of spreadsheets and physical calendars can help a writer organize notes, track scenes and visualize a story timeline

After a decade of editing, The Atlantic's Family Editor Julie Beck is going to apply her experience to full-time writing of her own stories

Megan Greenwell's “Bad Company,” annotated. Plus: What makes dialogue work on the page?

The New Yorker writer's new memoir, “Joyride.” Plus: Kate Sosin on covering trans issues and avoiding burnout.