New Journalism, American literary movement in the 1960s and ’70s that pushed the boundaries of traditional journalism and nonfiction writing. The genre combined journalistic research with the techniques of fiction writing in the reporting of stories about real-life events.

New Journalism is a style of news writing and journalism, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, that uses literary techniques unconventional at the time. It is characterized by a subjective perspective, a literary style reminiscent of long-form non-fiction.

2024年5月23日 · New Journalism was a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Combining the techniques of fiction writing with the fact-based approach of reporting, the writing that sprang from this movement demonstrated an aspiration to literary excellence in journalism.

The New Journalism was new in the sense that it attracted a plethora of practitioners and critics in the 1960s and 1970s and declared itself a movement, explicitly challenging traditional practices and calling attention to its potential as an exciting and influential genre.

2023年9月15日 · At this late date—partly due to the New Journalism itself—it is hard to explain what an American dream the idea of writing a novel was in the 1940s, the 1950s, and right into the early 1960s.

New journalism is a style of reporting that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, combining traditional journalistic practices with literary techniques to create immersive and engaging narratives.

2024年12月9日 · Wolfe describes the new genre as journalism that reads “like a novel” because it utilizes four techniques used by novelists: setting the story in specific scenes instead of in dislocated “historical” trends; extensive use of realistic dialogue; point-of-view narration from the perspective of characters; and an eye for the everyday ...

2023年7月30日 · Writers began including narrative devices and personal perceptions, impressions and opinions in otherwise journalistic reports on real and significant events. Dubbed ‘New Journalism’, this movement that developed in the 1960s and 1970s marked a fascinating turning point in nonfiction writing.

New Journalism - Narrative, Immersion, Style: The New Journalists’ ideas continue to be explored and refined by new generations of reporters and editors. In the early 1990s the spirit of the movement was reincarnated in a genre called “creative nonfiction.”

New Journalism is a genre of journalism that broadly falls under the feature story category in many newspapers and magazines. The form was pioneered in the 1960s and 1970s by Tom Wolfe of New York Magazine, and it strove to tell nonfiction stories in the style of a novel.