How to cover stories that ooze instead of break

From Rachel Carson's writing on pesticides to documentary filmmakers focusing on climate change and fracking, covering what Rob Nixon calls "slow violence" environmental stories has always been challenging. Writing on Nieman Storyboard, Nixon reviews recent efforts to meet that challenge. "Fast is faster than it used to be and story units have become ever shorter," Nixon writes. "So to render slow violence visible requires, among other things, redefining speed."

June 25, 2011

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