Vignette Journalism: Storytelling for the Social Media Age

How news outlets engage readers and audiences with tales of unsung people doing extraordinary things

I sat in a heart surgeon’s office, waiting to ask what it’s like to touch a beating heart. It’s not every day that you get to put such questions to people, even as a journalist. But this summer at the Calgary Herald, my editor assigned me to a project called What’s it Like? The idea […]