11 Facts About New Journalism

New Journalism is a style of news writing and journalism, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, that uses literary techniques unconventional at the time.

Term was codified with its current meaning by Tom Wolfe in a 1973 collection of journalism articles he published as The New Journalism, which included works by himself, Truman Capote, Hunter S Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Terry Southern, Robert Christgau, Gay Talese and others.

Articles in the New Journalism style tended not to be found in newspapers, but in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, CoEvolution Quarterly, Esquire, New York, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and for a short while in the early 1970s, Scanlan's Monthly.

The subjective nature of New Journalism received extensive exploration: one critic suggested the genre's practitioners functioned more as sociologists and psychoanalysts than as journalists.

New Journalism never wrote the piece, so far as I know, but I began using the expression in conversation and writing.

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The four techniques of realism that he and the other New Journalism Journalists employed, he wrote, had been the sole province of novelists and other literati.

New Journalism concluded that the new literary form was useful only in the hands of literary artists of great talent.

Pervading many of the specific interpretations of New Journalism is a posture of subjectivity.

The lack of source footnotes and bibliographies in most works of New Journalism is often cited by critics as showing a lack of intellectual rigor, verifiability, and even author laziness and sloppiness.

New Journalism charged that Wolfe "takes a middle course, shifting gears between fact and fantasy, spoof and reportage, until nobody knows which end is, at the moment, up".

New Journalism argued that most of the contentions arose because for traditional literati nonfiction should not succeed—which his nonfiction obviously had.