Bemærk: Denne side med amerikanske eksempler vil ikke længere blive opdateret. I stedet henvises til Narrative Digest, et website udgivet af Nieman, der rummer en imponerende og søgbar samling af amerikansk fortællende journalistik. Samlingen opdateres løbende.
Amerikanske eksempler på fortællende journalistik:
Curtis Krueger: The race to save Mary Lynn
Amid the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, an act of heroism went largely unnoticed. Four men on a Coast Guard helicopter from Clearwater flew straight into the hurricane, hoping to rescue the crew of a fishing boatIn a series of six short installments, the Times tells the story of the fishing boat Mary Lynn, its crew of three, and the Coast Guardsmen determined to save them. (St. Petersburg Times, 2005).
Robin Gaby Fisher: Last Chance High
Three dozen teenagers, all failures at other schools, bring the troubles of the streets into three cinder-block classrooms in Orange, where teachers work for a turnaround. Story in six parts about a special school for troubled teens. (The Star-Ledger, 2004).
Donna Ladd: Alleged Victims
An account of a Catholic couple, Dorothy and Francis Morrison, who were crushed by the discovery that the priest they'd considered a cherished family friend had molested all three of their sons. Jackson Free Press, 2004. (Won a first-place 2005 AltWeekly Award for Feature Story).
Patricia Wen: Barbara's Story: A mother, her sons, and a choice
Society has long wrestled with how to deal with those, like Barbara Paul, accused of child neglect. When parental lapses become chronic, the question arises: Who is to blame? The Boston Globe, 2003. (Nomineret til Pulitzer-prisen 2004).
Anne Hull and Tamara Jones: The War After the War: Soldiers Battle Shifts from Desert Sands to Hospital Linoleum
A story about soldiers struggling to heal from the physical and emotional wounds of battle. Washington Post, 2003. (Nomineret til Pulitzer-prisen 2004).
Robert Lee Hotz: Butterfly on a Bullet
In an inquest fraught with questions of guilt and shame, scientists unravel the mystery of a shuttle's demise. Los Angeles Times, 2003. (Nomineret til Pulitzer-prisen 2004).
Tom Hallman: Fighting for Life on Level 3
After tragedy, new life brings hope and the strength to go on. A chronicle of the life and death struggles of parents, their premature newborns, and the heroic nurses who care for them. The Oregonian, 2003. (Læs også Roy Peter Clarks kommentar til artiklen).
Tom French, Monique Fields & Dong-Phuong Nguyen:
13: Life at the Edge of Everything
Four Times staffers spent months shadowing a handful of Tampa seventh-graders. They went to the kids' slumber parties, hung out at their homes, witnessed all the mini-dramas of growing up. Along the way, they gained access into a secret world normally hidden from parents. St. Petersburg Times, 2003.
Lane DeGregory:
A Message From Roger
T.J. Smith and Son Dairy Farm
Bingo Bob's Big Day
People Like Us
The Face of a Futigive
'What Went Wrong? '
'Tara, please come home'
(Alle kortere, fortællende artikler er fra St. Petersburg Times, 2003)
Anne Saker, Demorris Lee & Craig Jarvis: The Peterson Trial
In a Durham courtroom, a real-life mystery unfolds. Did Mike Peterson beat his wife to death? Or did she die in a tragic fall down the staircase of their Cedar Street mansion? Reporters use the serial narrative to report a high-profile murder trial. Raleigh News & Observer, 2003.
Sonia Nazario: Enrique's Journey
In the vast migration that is changing the U.S., thousands of children travel alone, seeking the mothers who went before them. Los Angeles Times, 2002.
(Bemærk de fantastiske fotos som supplerer serien). (Pulitzer Prize Winner 2003).
Janice Podsada: Meth: A Year in Hell
In the summer of 2000, a 16-year-old teenage girl ran away from her home into the unseemly world of methamphetamine. Addicted to the drug and living in a secluded meth house, Holly learned the hard way about its effects on her body and her life. Holly’s mother, Robin, learned the value of persistence. Unwilling to relinquish her daughter to the street, Robin single-handedly combed the dark corners of the county in a frantic effort to save her. This is their story... The Daily Herald of Everett, Wash., 2002.
Lon Wagner & Amy Waters Yarsinske: Dead or Alive
On the first night of the Gulf War, an American pilot disappeared. What happened to Scott Speicher is a mystery that deepens by the year. The Virginian-Pilot, 2002.
Earl Swift: Inside Pentagon on 9/11 The Virginian-Pilot, 2002.
Anne Hull: Old South Goes With the Wind
256,563 foreign-born people arrived in metropolitan Atlanta between 1990 and the end of the century, changing an historically white and black society. This series tells four stories out of the thousands, focusing on immigrants who were coming of age on the rim of a new world. Washington Post, 2002.
Hal Bernton, Mike Carter, David Heath & James Neff:
The Terrorist Within: The story behind one man's holy war against America
The tale of how a footloose, unfocused Algerian boy, son of a war hero, evolved into a terrorist.How he learned to kill in Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida camps. And how, since Sept. 11, he has been one of the U.S. government’s best resources in the war on terror. A 17-part serial narrative. The Seattle Times, 2002.
Barry Siegel: A Fathers Pain...
A haunting portrait of a man tried for negligence in the death of his son, and the judge who heard the case. Los Angeles Times, 2001. (Pulitzer Prize Winner 2002).
Susan Reinhardt: An Unbreakable Spirit
A boy's undaunted hope inspires mission worker to become a hero. Ledin Rodas, 9, was born with a genetic bone disease that left his lower body horribly deformed. He had never, in his life, taken even the first step. Shawn Earnest, 26, would see to it that he had the chance. What evolved from their serendipitous meeting in Honduras in February 2000 led to the unexpected. Citizen-Times, 2001
Roy Peter Clark: Her Picture in My Wallet
A two-part serial about Tommy Carden, who survived World War II only to lose his first great love. St. Petersburg Times, 2001.
Tom Hallman: The Boy Behind the Mask
Except for the deformity, Sam was normal in every way. But everyone outside Sam's circle of family and friends would have a hard time seeing beyond the mass of tissue on his face. The Oregonian, 2000. (Pulitzer Prize Winner 2001)
Tom French, Sue Carlton & Anne Hull: The Valesse Robinson Case
A Tampa teenager is going on trial, accused of killing her mother. What happened in this case in which so little seems to make sense? St. Petersburg Times, 2000. (Læs også Tom French beskrivelse af arbejdsprocessen bag serien).
Anne Hull: Una Vida Mejor 1. del, 2. del og 3. del
They are human capital, ordered like product and shipped in for a season. A handful of women from a windblown village in Mexico set out for a better life - una vida mejor - on the back roads of the new world economy. (St. Petersburg Times, 1999).
G. Wayne Miller: Into the Heart: A Medical Odyssey
Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the invention of open-heart surgery, yet, until now, no journalist has ever brought all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph to life. This is the story of the surgeon who accomplished what many experts considered to be an impossible feat: He opened the heart, repaired fatal defects, and made the miraculous routine. Providence Journal, 1999.
G. Wayne Miller: A Nearly Perfect Summer
A six-part serial about the shuttered world of Newport society in the summer of 1999. Providence Journal, 1999.
Gina Barton: Justice for Becky
A True Crime Mystery in 19 Parts. The story of a police detective's struggle to solve the mystery of what happened to a missing 15-year-old Niles girl. As Becky Stowe's friends and family assisted the police in the glare of the media spotlight, they learned hard lessons about growing up, friendship and community. South Bend Tribune, 1999.
Ken Fuson: A Stage in Their Lives (Best Newspaper Writing Award 1998) serial narrative about a group of high school students staging "West Side Story." The Baltimore Sun, 1998.
Richard Read: The French Fry Connection
Following one globe-hopping load of Northwest potatoes reveals a lot about the world economic crisis. The Oregonian, 1998. (Pulitzer Prize Winner 1999).
Sheryl James: Devotion and Death
Alice Leith died of cancer still loving and defending her husband, even after he killed. A 12-part serial. Detroit Free Press, 1998.
Tom French: Angels & Demons
On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle and Christe were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of the murders and their aftermath, a story of a handful of people who kept faith amid the unthinkable. St. Petersburg Times, 1997. (Pulitzer Prize Winner 1998).
Roy Peter Clark: Sadie's Ring: A Journey of the Spirit
An 11-part chronicle about Clark's experience as a young Catholic man experiencing his family's Jewish roots. Miami Herald.
Mark Bowden: Blackhawk Down: An American War Story
The original 29-part narrative about the Somalia fiasco. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The serie led to a best-selling book and a movie. Philadelphia Inquirer, 1997.
Lisa Pollack: The Umpire's Sons
How do you survive the death of a child? How do you go on knowing another child shares the same genetic disease? When you've traveled John Hirschbeck's journey, being spit upon is just a footnote. The Baltimore Sun, 1996. (Pultizer Prize Winner, 1997)
Roy Peter Clark: Three Little Words
A 29-day series about a family's struggle with AIDS. St. Petersburg Times, 1996.
Bob Wyss: Willie's Nightmare
This is the story of the price one man paid for an environmental accident - a gasoline leak that threatened the drinking water of 20,000 homes. Providence Journal, 1997. (Læs også What does it take to produce a serial narrative? - a discussion of the six-part serial).
Jon Franklin: Mrs. Kelly's Monster
The Baltimore Sun, 1978. (Pultizer Prize Winner 1979). (Andre eksempler på Franklins fortællende journalistisk kan læses her).
Gay Talese: Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
Esquire magazine, 1966.
Klassisk artikel af en grundlæggerne af New Journalism.
Flere eksempler på fortællende journalistik kan findes kan findes her:
The Narrative Newspaper - http://www.inkstain.net/narrative/
The Oregonian – www.oregonlive.com/specials
St. Petersburg Times - http://www.sptimes.com/News/webspecials/
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