{"id":16427,"date":"2025-11-21T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/?p=16427"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:37:46","slug":"your-favorite-stories-podcasts-books-docs-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2025\/11\/21\/your-favorite-stories-podcasts-books-docs-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Share your favorite stories (and podcasts, books, and docs) of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":" \n
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Sign up for the Nieman Storyboard newsletter,<\/em><\/a> delivered every Friday in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Dear Storyboard community: <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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It can often feel impossible to keep up with the news cycle and all the outstanding journalism that’s produced and published each year. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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That’s why I’m grateful for the many \u201cbest of\u201d lists that begin to roll in around now. The holiday season gives us time to pause, reflect, and look back at what we may have missed. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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In that spirit, I’d like to hear from the Nieman Storyboard community. Now is your chance to share your favorite moments in journalism and storytelling from 2025 \u2014 the stories, #longreads, podcasts, books, documentaries, photos (and\u2026TikToks?) that stuck with you and made an impression. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Please send me your submissions<\/a> for your favorite stories of the year. You make your own criteria \u2014 perhaps you admire the reporting or storytelling, the writing and production, or you simply feel the work deserves more recognition.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Some other parameters: <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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  1. You can share up to two recommendations. Provide a link, and up to 100 words on why you love it or what it taught you about the craft of journalism and storytelling.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Please choose stories, books, podcasts, or documentaries that neither you, nor your employer, were involved in. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Let’s focus on journalism, narrative nonfiction, and first-person\/memoir.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. If you discovered something in 2025, but it was published earlier than this year, we’ll allow it! <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n
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    Fill out the Google form below and we look forward to sharing your picks throughout December. Thank you for being a part of this community. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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    [ <\/strong>Submit your Best of 2025 picks<\/strong><\/a> ]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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    Speaking of great work from the past year, Storyboard contributor Minda Honey is back this week in conversation with the reporting team<\/a> behind \u201cAmerican Shrapnel,\u201d<\/a> the serialized podcast about domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph and the series of bombings across the U.S. South from 1996 to 1998, including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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    Even decades later, some sources didn’t feel comfortable talking, especially at a moment when domestic terrorism and extremist political ideology remain at the center of the national conversation. The reporting team of John Hammontree, Becca Andrews, and John Archibald talked to Honey about discussing traumatic events with their sources. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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    How the team behind the \u2018American Shrapnel\u2019 podcast helped their sources feel safe<\/a>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n
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    \u201cWe basically said, \u2018We just want you to tell your story, and you tell what you\u2019re comfortable telling.\u2019 And he just opened up. And John and I, honestly, just sat there in an emotional state of wonder because he was summing up things that I thought were so extremely powerful and that we had never heard before. I think he understood that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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    [ <\/strong>Read the story<\/strong><\/a> ]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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    Links of note <\/h2>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n
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