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

GPT-3 has been trained to write Hollywood scripts and compose nonfiction in the style of Gay Talese’s New Journalism classic ‘‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.’’

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 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

Since then I have taken up the reviewing of minor verse as a part of my livelihood, and where I once saw the New Jerusalem I see now the New Journalism.

From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard