{"id":15755,"date":"2025-07-04T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/?p=15755"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:55:08","slug":"different-ways-of-seeking-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/07\/04\/different-ways-of-seeking-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Different ways of seeking truth"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/about\/subscribe-to-nieman-storyboard\/\"><em>Sign up for the Nieman Storyboard newsletter,<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;delivered every Friday in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Dear Storyboard community,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>This week we have two new conversations about the ways we seek out bigger truths in our stories.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>On the Nieman Storyboard podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/07\/03\/nadia-reiman-stories-immigration-this-american-life\/\">I sat down with Nadia Reiman<\/a>, reporter and editor covering immigration for \u201cThis American Life.\u201d We focused on three stories from three distinct moments in recent history:\u00a0a piece from 2019 about the changing asylum process, which earned Reiman and her colleagues the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting; a story shortly after Trump was elected again in November 2024, speculating about what might happen if the administration followed through on its mass deportation plans; and most recently, a story from April about a woman searching for her fianc\u00e9, a Venezuelan immigrant who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and later discovered in a video arriving at a prison in El Salvador.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Rigorous reporting, combined with a strong voice guiding us along, allows \u201cThis American Life\u201d to present human stories that speak the truth plainly. Reiman breaks down how she and her colleagues find and tell those stories \u2014 from the core components of a \u201cTAL\u201d narrative, to the interviews, script-writing, editing, music scoring, interpreters, and in the case of anonymous sources, voice actors.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/07\/03\/nadia-reiman-stories-immigration-this-american-life\/\">Nadia Reiman on telling stories of immigration for \u2018This American Life\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-image mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/07\/03\/nadia-reiman-stories-immigration-this-american-life\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nadia-reiman-TAL-storyboard-1024x756.png\" alt=\"Nadia Reiman of \u201cThis American Life\u201c\" class=\"wp-image-15739\" style=\"width:648px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nadia-reiman-TAL-storyboard-1024x756.png 1024w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nadia-reiman-TAL-storyboard-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nadia-reiman-TAL-storyboard-768x567.png 768w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nadia-reiman-TAL-storyboard-1536x1133.png 1536w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nadia-reiman-TAL-storyboard-150x110.png 150w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nadia-reiman-TAL-storyboard.png 1908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nadia Reiman of \u201cThis American Life\u201c<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>[ <a 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\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>[ Follow us in <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/nieman-storyboard\/id1804505440\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4cN4SOwf5Am05PoA9wckcA\">Spotify<\/a>, or your <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.buzzsprout.com\/2449998\/episodes\">favorite podcast app<\/a>. ]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-spacer mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/07\/02\/craft-of-memoir-irvin-weathersby-jr-truth-telling-travelogue\/\">Storyboard contributor Minda Honey<\/a> is back with a new conversation about the craft of memoir, this time with Irvin Weathersby Jr., author of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/in-open-contempt-confronting-white-supremacy-in-art-and-public-space-irvin-weathersby\/21364422?ean=9780593299159&amp;next=t\">\u201cIn Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space.\u201d<\/a> Honey calls it \u201ca potent example of a travelogue that weaves in personal storytelling with history.\u201d In his writing, Weathersby is seeking truth by putting himself in situations of discomfort:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>How can I situate myself within these current moments but also within the timeline of history? To engage in general conversations and being very mindful of the things that I don&#8217;t know and being OK with asking questions and being OK with my own ignorance.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/07\/02\/craft-of-memoir-irvin-weathersby-jr-truth-telling-travelogue\/\">The Craft of Memoir: Irvin Weathersby Jr. on truth-telling in a travelogue<\/a><\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-image mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/07\/02\/craft-of-memoir-irvin-weathersby-jr-truth-telling-travelogue\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/irvin-weathersby-jr-storyboard-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"Irvin Weathersby Jr.\" class=\"wp-image-15726\" style=\"width:678px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/irvin-weathersby-jr-storyboard-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/irvin-weathersby-jr-storyboard-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/irvin-weathersby-jr-storyboard-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/irvin-weathersby-jr-storyboard-1536x971.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/irvin-weathersby-jr-storyboard-2048x1294.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Irvin Weathersby Jr. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/07\/02\/craft-of-memoir-irvin-weathersby-jr-truth-telling-travelogue\/\">Read the story<\/a> ]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-heading   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links of note\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-image mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/hoinski.bsky.social\/post\/3lt35dfl4os2v\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"836\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-03-at-9.33.06\u202fAM-1024x836.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15756\" style=\"width:538px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-03-at-9.33.06\u202fAM-1024x836.png 1024w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-03-at-9.33.06\u202fAM-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-03-at-9.33.06\u202fAM-768x627.png 768w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-03-at-9.33.06\u202fAM.png 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mike Hoinski, deputy editor of Texas Highways magazine, responds to <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/06\/27\/magic-mushrooms-psilocybin-journalist-robert-sanchez\/\">our Robert Sanchez Q&amp;A<\/a> on Bluesky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-list mb-4 list max-w-screen-full mx-auto pl-5 \">\n            \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;m always on the lookout for journalists who use their personal newsletters to report and write short narratives (send me your favorites: <a href=\"mailto:editor@niemanstoryboard.org\">editor@niemanstoryboard.org<\/a>). Leah Sottile is very good at this \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leahsottile.substack.com\/p\/61-good-riddance\">her latest dispatch gives the history of an infamous billboard<\/a> along Interstate 5 in Washington state that was erected by a &#8220;conspiratorial turkey farmer&#8221; in the 1960s to share his right-wing political views. Sottile called him &#8220;an OG troll&#8221;: &#8220;People use Twitter now; he used a billboard with a dopey-looking Uncle Sam.&#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Always address the audience\u2019s implied question, \u2018Why does this matter now?\u2019 Our stakes need to come early \u2014 and they need to be high enough for audiences to care.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/soundjudgment.substack.com\/p\/five-more-storytelling-hacks-to-improve\">More excellent podcast storytelling tips from Elaine Appleton Grant<\/a> in her Sound Judgment newsletter.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another view of storytelling, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeliever.net\/an-interview-with-sheila-heti\/\">The Believer&#8217;s interview with author Sheila Heti<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t know if I know what plot is. I think you just have to get someone to the end of the book. There are many ways of doing that. It doesn\u2019t have to be plot. It can be the switching of moods that a person becomes addicted to experiencing, or a train of thought they become curious about, or a tone they want to stay in. There are so many ways to keep somebody inside a book and to make them interested in what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And finally, in news from our sister publication: Congrats to Samantha Henry, <a href=\"https:\/\/nieman.harvard.edu\/samantha-henry-named-editor-of-nieman-reports\/\">who has been named editor<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/niemanreports.org\/\">Nieman Reports<\/a>. \u201cI am honored to continue Nieman Reports\u2019 long tradition of standing for press freedom and shining light on the vitally important work of journalists around the world.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Keep sharing your stories,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Mark Armstrong<br><a href=\"https:\/\/nieman.harvard.edu\/mark-armstrong-named-editor-of-nieman-storyboard\/\">Editor<\/a><br>Nieman Storyboard<br><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.buzzsprout.com\">Follow the Nieman Storyboard Podcast<\/a>\u00a0<br>On Bluesky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:nejd5yomd3xtdcdg267bqim5\">@niemanstoryboard.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div 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