Conventional journalism, like higher education, has been challenged by new high-tech methods of delivery, among many other things. Money's tight; public skepticism, high. But the new journalism, also much like higher education, is more complicated than it seems. Journalism isn't going away. It's changing. With notable exceptions, the higher…

Examines the tools and techniques used by those reporters who have been classified as new journalists or new non-fiction writers. (RB)

Lists some of the new journalism concepts which can be easily applied to college yearbooks. (RB)

Discusses the concepts of new journalism in terms of the writers who have dominated the movement. (MH)

Examines the need for courses in new journalism and describes an experimental graduate seminar which traces the influence of literature and traditional journalism on the new journalism. (RB)

Provides a brief sketch of the essential characteristics of new journalism, offers a rationale for calling it "new," and differentiates the new nonfiction from the broader concept of new journalism. See CS 702 359 for availability information.(RB)

Traces the history of new journalism to the pre-Civil War era of partisan and advocacy journalism and points out that "new" types of reporting have occurred throughout the history of American journalism. (RB)

Attempts to develop a conceptual framework for placing the new journalism in a philosophical context based on romanticism. (RB)

Argues that literary journalism is no threat to fundamental news writing and that it does not place style above substance. (FL)

Argues that both new journalism and popular culture are understood when they are viewed in terms of form rather than content. See CS 702 359 for availability information. (RB)

Describes three language-related assignments for advanced composition which focus on politics and the English language, symbols and dictionaries, and language as a combination of interpretive and manipulative devices using the techniques of new journalism. (HOD)

Describes how a new journalism writing style energized writing composition students to write in meaningful, exciting ways about matters close to them. Explains what New Journalism is and how students can be instructed in it. (TB)

The late Donald C. Stewart's assertion that "the era of the cognitive psychologists is waning; the era of the social constructionists is just beginning" drew attention to a major ontological and epistemological shift in composition studies. This shift demanded a methodology to accommodate it. Some composition researchers have considered…

Summarizes many of the characteristics of new journalism as highlighted by Tow Wolfe and E. W. Johnson in "The New Journalism", discusses several definitions of new journalism, and predicts that one trend new journalism will take in the future is to develop men's liberation as a subject. (RB)