New Journalism

noun

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

New Journalism

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

Other Word Forms

• New Journalist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of New Journalism¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

While rooted in the New Journalism of Joan Didion and John McPhee, “Murderland” deploys a mocking tone to draw us in, scattering deadpan jokes among chapters: “In 1974 there are at least a half a dozen serial killers operating in Washington. Nobody can see the forest for the trees.”

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In many of the essays that were collected in the books “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” and “The White Album,” Didion, in contrast to her New Journalism contemporaries, keenly debunked the prevailing myth of the ’60s counterculture as some new utopian portal, instead revealing in her essays a country that was coming undone by its own unchecked permissiveness, inward-looking narcissism and spiritual anomie.

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

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“In Pennsylvania, 34 percent of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the nominee vowed to withhold weapons to Israel, compared to 7 percent who said they would be less likely. The rest said it would make no difference,” the new journalism site Zeteo reported.

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Later, he would spend nearly two years inside Texas prisons to document the lives and conditions there, immersive photography that has been described as the visual equivalent of the era’s New Journalism popularized by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe.

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