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 Words From

• New Journalist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of New Journalism¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

“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.

From Salon

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.

From Los Angeles Times

Glazer knows his new journalism proposal will face fierce resistance but he’s undaunted.

From Seattle Times

The white-suited gadfly of Virginian stock, Manhattan-sized prose and rocket-fueled renown died in 2018, but his literary legacy as the Big Bang of New Journalism lives on, even as a new documentary about him, “Radical Wolfe,” implies there will never be another.

From Los Angeles Times

I want to get this out of the way because in general I have such tremendous admiration for the man: that debonair eminence of ye olde New Journalism who is both a living landmark of Manhattan and his own best character.

From New York Times