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

The writer, who dabbled in both fiction and nonfiction, is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025

“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

Mr. Latham was a strapping Texan who first made his name on the East Coast in the 1970s, embarking on his magazine career when the movement known as New Journalism was in florescence.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2022

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

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2021

We are apt to think of Lord Northcliffe as the "onlie begetter" of the New Journalism.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 by Various