Host, Music Inside Out
My area of study when I was at Harvard was storytelling. I tried to use [the] year to learn about all kinds of different ways to tell stories. So I took a course in celestial navigation, I took a course in preaching, and I took the History of Broadway. Because I wanted to learn how to talk about lots of different things with a framework based on reason and making connections that may not appear to be obvious but are real, in terms of culture.”
- “The Jukebox in My Mind”: Thompkins’ Adventures in Africa, with Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers Nieman Reports Spring 2012
- “Wangari Maathai—A Reporter’s Remembrance”
- “‘Why’s This So Good?’: Dan Barry and the Indiana Crow Patrol”: Nieman Storyboard
- “Music Inside Out with Gwen Thompkins” from WWNO New Orleans
- Featured Fellow: Thompkin’s best narrative