Blog
Feb
4
4
2015
What we’re reading: Harry Potter wins, measuring media impact, and info vs. wisdom
INFORMATION VS. WISDOM: In the video above, Maria Popova, founder and editor of Brain Pickings, says that storytellers interpret ...
Jan
28
28
2015
Weekly round-up: on getting strangers’ stories, story maps, and not telling stories
HOW TO GET STORIES FROM STRANGERS: Above is a video of Brandon Stanton, the creator of the hugely popular ...
Jan
21
21
2015
Weekly round-up: Cat memes, women journalists, vaccine stories
CAT MEMES: Last year, I wondered about whether inserting pictures of cats in social-change communications would make them more ...
Jan
14
14
2015
Weekly round-up: understanding the lives of others
“LIFE CYCLES OF INEQUITY”: That’s the name of a series of Colorlines videos and articles on the stages of ...
Jan
7
7
2015
Storytelling round-up for the new year: books, films, theater, journalism and more
BOOKS AND SOCIAL CHANGE: Media Impact Funders uses Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in ...
Dec
24
24
2014
Christmas story
How does Santa know who’s naughty and who’s nice? “The Truth” podcast speculates about the answer to this question, ...