What journalists can learn from movies

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At first he was put off by the advice he got from a film executive, John Capouya writes on Nieman Storyboard. But as he worked on his biography of the professional wrestler Gorgeous George, he began to learn what makes movies work: "The way screenwriters understand, exploit and tweak these elements can help us tell compelling true stories that, at least at first, don't appear on-screen. There's real craft, and real craft lessons, in the stories that unfold in the dark.

March 23, 2014

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