Power of Narrative 2025

Boston Globe newsletter editor Diamond Naga Siu discusses how newsletters are a powerful two-way platform to build community with your audience. The session will focus on meaningful reader engagement, thoughtful community building, and leveraging the full potential of different newsletter platforms.

Readers are drawn to human stories. Line Vaaben, "existential editor" at the Danish newspaper Politiken, generates ideas, supervises, and writes stories about what it means to be human. In this session, she shares the newspaper's success with this focus, along with tips and tricks on how to find and craft journalistic stories that generate longer reading times, increase subscriptions, and capture attention.

How do you transform a deeply reported investigation into a
compelling, coherent narrative that sings on multiple platforms? The
Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team is doing just that. A year after their
award-winning series, Murder in Boston, the Globe just launched a
Spotlight podcast franchise. Hear from Globe Head of Audio Kristin
Nelson, Spotlight Editor Brendan McCarthy, and reporter Dugan
Arnett detail ‘Snitch City,’ the new investigative series that pulls back
the curtain on police misconduct and confidential informants 

Amory Sivertson, host/reporter of the investigative crime podcast "Beyond All Repair" from WBUR and ZSP Media, breaks down several examples from the reporting and writing process of the series where the details made all the difference. In an oversaturated genre of an oversaturated medium, the care and attention you pay to those little nagging details is often what makes your work singular and memorable. And in "Beyond All Repair," it led to a break in the case…