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

• New Journalist
  noun

Etymology

Origin of New Journalism

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

New Journalism

Wolfe had made a name with his full-throated New Journalism dispatches of the 1960s and ’70s, which adopted the techniques of fiction to describe a postwar world that seemed increasingly outlandish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“Irma” is told in three parts, and in the second McDonell, who came of age in the era of New Journalism, makes the very New Journalistic choice to swerve into the third person.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2023

Stewart was careful not to call her “an outspoken feminist” but commended Didion for blazing the trail of New Journalism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2021

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

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2021

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