Nieman Storyboard

About Nieman Storyboard

In-depth conversations about the craft of journalism and storytelling, presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Hosted by Mark Armstrong, editor of Nieman Storyboard, founder (emeritus) of Longreads and co-founder of the podcast company Ursa.

Publisher

Nieman Foundation for Journalism

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Mar 2025

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Journalist Wudan Yan on the importance of fact-checking as ‘peer review’

   This week's guest on the Nieman Storyboard podcast, journalist Wudan Yan, is founder of the fact-checking agency Factual, which provides fact-checking services for journalists, authors, and nonprofits. Writing for her newsletter, she recently made the case that fact-checking itself needs to evolve to meet the moment, so we talked about how journalists can make the most of the process in their own work. “ My true fear is that people are just going to become desensitized to the amount of ...

2. 

   11 Sept 2026

   Author and editor Sari Botton on giving yourself permission to write personal essays

   Our guest on this week's Nieman Storyboard podcast, editor and bestselling author Sari Botton, is an expert in the art of personal storytelling. Through her popular Substack publications, Oldster Magazine, Memoir Land, and Adventures in “Journalism,” and before that as essays editor for Longreads (where we worked together), Botton has shepherded hundreds of writers through the process of telling their own stories — and doing so with a thoughtful eye for what makes personal essays connect with...

3. 

   28 Aug 2026

   Audio journalist Will James on investigating the unsolved murder of a teenager in Seattle's CHOP zone

   Storyboard editor Mark Armstrong sits down with audio documentary producer Will James to discuss his work with Seattle's KUOW and his latest investigative project, a collaboration with journalists from The Seattle Times, NPR's “Embedded” and Omari Salisbury's Converge Media. “We Keep Us Safe,” an eight-episode narrative podcast, looks into the unsolved killing of 16-year old Antonio Mays Jr., who was shot in Seattle’s CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) zone during the 2020 protests fo...

Who has been a guest on Nieman Storyboard

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Tonya Mosley
• Stephanie Keith
• Sasha Bonét
• Claudia Rowe
• Danyel Smith

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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Books guests

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