A Storytelling Agency. Powered by Journalists
We have decades of experience telling powerful narratives
HOW WILL WE TELL YOURS?
Writers
Editors
Podcasters
Filmmakers
How We Work
You’re doing important work, but your story is getting lost in the noise. We’d bet that your organization doesn’t need a louder voice. It needs a story that people feel.
The kind that moves you, opens doors, sparks belief.
Because we believe there’s no strategy without story. Devoid of real narrative, your communications efforts are just planning decks, content calendars filled with fluff and filler, and talking points no one remembers.
Story is the difference between getting attention and being understood; between content and connection.
Your mission has a story. Your founder has a story. Your community does too.
- Nofiction brings the secret ingredient of storytelling to your organization.
- Not marketing. Not messaging. Just real stories, told brilliantly.
Nofiction is a storytelling studio powered by award-winning journalists. We write (and make podcasts and films) for some of the biggest publications and media outlets on the planet.
When you hire Nofiction, we become part of your team. We’ll take a deep dive into your business, find the through lines. Then we write about them like they belong on the front page.
We’ll produce features, deep profiles, and ‘big idea’ narratives built to resonate with audiences that can live on your website, blog, social channels; that you can distribute via your newsletter or post on Linkedin.
We’ll write op-eds that sing, and journalistic press releases that editors can’t pass up. We tell the stories that comms teams can’t do without — but they didn’t know they were missing.
Our Founder
Alex Hannaford
Alex Hannaford writes about social justice, politics, and other topics for The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph magazines, British GQ, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The Nation, and other outlets. A fellow of Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Alex is the writer and director of an award-winning animated short film about the death penalty and the co-creator of the top-ranking podcast, Dead Man Talking. Born in London, he has taught journalism at the UK’s Kingston University. He lives in upstate New York.
Our Team
Nofiction’s team is comprised award-winning journalists, editors, podcasters, producers, and filmmakers who have told stories for outlets like the New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Sony, and Wondery. As we’re active members of the media industry, we understand what captures the attention of journalists and editors because that’s who we are. Our team brings a journalist’s eye for storytelling to every project.
