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

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

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

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 Richard Le Gallienne