New Journalism

New Journalism is a style of news writing and journalism which was developed in the 1960s and 1970s, that uses literary techniques, previously seen as unconventional in news writing contexts. It is characterized by the presence of a subjective perspective and style that is reminiscent of long-form non-fiction. Through extensive imagery and observations, reporters interpolate subjective language within facts while immersing themselves in the stories as they report and write them. This differs from traditional journalism, where the journalist is "invisible"; facts are meant to be reported objectively. The term was made popular by Tom Wolfe's 1973 collection of journalism articles he published named The New Journalism, which included works by Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Terry Southern and others. The pieces from these writers were all long-form, narrative focused reports that used literary tools not seen in typical news writing. Most New Journalism articles were not found in newspapers, but in magazines such as The Atlantic, Harper's, CoEvolution Quarterly, Esquire, New York, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and for a short while in the early 1970s, Scanlan's Monthly.