Narrative Storytelling

Writing Elegant Background

Christina Selby

William deBuys Goes to Extremes for Endangered Species

Christina Selby

The Human Element: Bringing Science to Life with Profiles

Esther Landhuis

Time Traveling: Writing Graceful Flashbacks

Mason Inman

Good Endings: How to Write a Kicker Your Editor—and Your Readers—Will Love

Robin Meadows

Stephen Ornes Explains the Science of Lightning to Young Readers

Amanda Mascarelli

Narrative X-Rays: Looking at Stories’ Structural Skeletons

Julia Rosen

Good Beginnings: How to Write a Lede Your Editor—and Your Readers—Will Love

Robin Meadows

A spiderweb hanging between some yellow flowers. The spiderweb and a few flowers are in focus; the rest of the image is blurred.

Explaining Complexity

Carl Zimmer

Phil McKenna Describes the Making of “Life in the Death Zone”

Vijee Venkatraman

A speech bubble composed of dozens of small illustrations of human figures.

Oral Histories in Science Journalism: An Underrated Art

Ewen Callaway

Ask TON: Nailing Physical Descriptions

TON Editors

David Wolman Explores Italian Earthquake’s Legal Aftershocks

Amanda Mascarelli

Ask TON: How to Build Narrative in Explanatory Stories

TON Editors

Seth Mnookin Follows a Family Battling a Rare Genetic Disease

Siri Carpenter

A chemistry lab bench covered with bottles, instruments, and other equipment.

Making the Most of Lab Visits

Liza Gross

A face peering through an empty space in an otherwise-completed jigsaw puzzle.

Creating Characters on the Page

Shannon Palus