New Journalism

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New Journalism is a literary style of news writing that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, blending factual reporting with narrative techniques and subjective perspectives more typical of fiction.

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New Journalism (precursor) 1
new journalism 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf journalism movement
journalistic style
literary journalism
aimsTo convey experiential truth
engage readers emotionally
associatedWith Gay Talese
Hunter S. Thompson
Joan Didion
Norman Mailer
Tom Wolfe
Truman Capote
combinesWith fiction techniques
traditional reporting
contrastsWith inverted pyramid news writing
objective reporting
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizedFor blurring fact and fiction
potential inaccuracy
subjectivity
emergedInPeriod 1960s
1970s
focusesOn cultural context
individual experience
social context
subjective reality
hasAlternativeName literary new journalism
New Journalism
surface form: new journalism
hasKeyWork Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
In Cold Blood
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Armies of the Night
surface form: The Armies of the Night

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
historicalContext 1960s counterculture
Vietnam War era
civil rights movement era
influenced creative nonfiction
gonzo journalism
literary nonfiction
magazine journalism
narrative journalism
influencedBy modernist fiction
realist fiction
traditional feature writing
popularizedIn Esquire magazine
surface form: Esquire

New York Magazine
surface form: New York magazine

The New Yorker
magazines
usesTechnique extended dialogue
first-person point of view
immersion reporting
interior monologue
narrative storytelling
novelistic description
scene-by-scene construction
status details
stream-of-consciousness elements
subjective perspective
symbolic details
third-person point of view

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Armies of the Night genre New Journalism
New Journalism hasAlternativeName New Journalism
this entity surface form: new journalism
Truman Capote influenced New Journalism
this entity surface form: New Journalism (precursor)
Armies of the Night literaryMovement New Journalism
Music for Chameleons literaryMovement New Journalism
The Right Stuff literaryMovement New Journalism
Norman Mailer movement New Journalism
Truman Streckfus Persons movement New Journalism