New Journalism

American  

noun

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

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New Journalism British  

noun

1. 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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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• New Journalist
  noun

Etymology

Origin of New Journalism

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

He also reads and discusses other works, from Michael Herr’s New Journalism classic “Dispatches” to Geoff Dyer’s D.H.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2022

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

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2021

Mr. Anson emerged from the New Journalism movement of the 1960s, which held that reporters should immerse themselves in their stories and employ dramatic literary devices to make their tales more compelling.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2020

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