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New Journalism

American

noun

journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.

New Journalism British

noun

a style of journalism originating in the US in the 1960s, which uses techniques borrowed from fiction to portray a situation or event as vividly as possible

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New Journalist

noun

Etymology

Origin of New Journalism

First recorded in 1965–70

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The provocative author isn’t as widely read as other leaders of New Journalism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2022

In Talese-ian New Journalism, vivid descriptions — style — rule the day.

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2021

It was classic New Journalism, its language simultaneously flip and hip, and it fawned over Lee.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2021

Then a weekly, the magazine was a bastion of the New Journalism for writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin and Nora Ephron, who applied literary fiction techniques to stories about real-life events.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2020

The thrill of the New Journalism has enlisted in the ranks of the Fleet Street army some who, in a former age, must have sought their fortune with the less mighty weapon.

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Rohmer, Sax

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