Every week, I will shine the spotlight on some of the best storytelling in the business and offer my comments. “3 Great Stories of the Week” will post every Monday at 8 AM.

I have focused the first few weeks of “3 Great Stories” on TV pieces, both long-form journeys and well-edited triumphs.

This week, we branch out.

You will find three impeccably told stories here, but they come in different sizes and media. One is a nicely spun local TV yarn, but another is a print masterpiece accompanied by a horrifying photo. The third is all photos, by one of my favorite storytelling arms in the business.

Soccer reigns at King Chavez High School (3/1/13, KNSD-TV San Diego): Greg Bledsoe does what I do — he is a one-man TV band, which means he shoots and edits the videos for his on-air reports — and he does it very, very well. (He also does weather on the side, which is a whole ‘nother batch of awesomeness.) In this story, he captures dawn on the soccer field in San Diego, with a piece that reminded me of the movie Gridiron Gang with its uplifting inner-city athletic-success-story feel.

The Crime of His Childhood (3/2/13, New York Times): I would love to tell you that writer Wendell Jamieson gradually hooked me with his tremendous prose and goose-bumping descriptions. (A former colleague recommended this story by highlighting the line, “He had a mustache transplant.”) But this immensely personal story — both for the subject and the author — hooked me as soon as I saw the opening photo: a well-dressed man, sitting on a subway platform, with half his face covered by acid burns.

Kenya: Awaiting election results (3/8/13, boston.com/bigpicture): Speaking of photographs, I will probably mention the Big Picture blog regularly in this space. Done by the Boston Globe, it aggregates the best photos on a particular subject — sometimes lighter fare, sometimes heavier — and presents them as a collection in all of their full-screen glory. We see photo galleries everywhere, but few have the selective eyes of Big Picture. Check out their latest: a look at the tension and excitement surrounding Kenya’s most recent elections.

I wanted to mention one more story this week that absolutely blew me away. Instead of discussing it here, I decided to hold my thoughts for a larger entry coming this week. Check back Wednesday morning for my thoughts on Joe Posnanski’s beautiful look at the life of recently passed NFL Films maestro Steve Sabol.

Have a suggestion for “Stories of the Week”? E-mail me at matt@tellingthestoryblog.com.