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New Journalism

New Journalism proper noun: a style of news writing and journalism of the 1960s and 1970s, employing a subjective approach and literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time.

Proper noun

New Journalism

  1. A style of news writing and journalism of the 1960s and 1970s, employing a subjective approach and literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time.
    • In some ways the New Journalism of the sixties was a response to the gap left by writers who wrote intensely subjective experimental fiction, like Burroughs, or who made use of fable and myth to create new fictional forms, like Barth and Hawkes.2000, Thomas Newhouse, The Beat Generation and the Popular Novel in the United States, 1945–1970, McFarland, →ISBN, page 120
    • A fan of the New Journalism, she put a premium on lively prose and colorful detail, throwing overboard the pompousness of the professional gourmets who dominated the profession.2022 November 1, William Grimes, “Gael Greene, Who Shook Up Restaurant Reviewing, Dies at 88”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about New Journalism

What does New Journalism mean?
New Journalism means a style of news writing and journalism of the 1960s and 1970s, employing a subjective approach and literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time.
What part of speech is New Journalism?
New Journalism is a proper noun.

Words near New Journalism in the dictionary

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  5. New Joisey
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  9. New Kent County
  10. New Keynesian
  11. New Keynesians

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