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…

In this essay Emily Hager presents an example of conflict education through student journalism. War News Radio is a student-organized and student-produced program developed at Swarthmore College in which participants produce for a global audience nonpartisan weekly radio shows and podcasts focused on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hager shares…

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

Suggests that curiosity and inquiry activities, as displayed in new journalism, can vitalize feature articles. (HOD)

Defines and describes new journalism, and tells how it can be used by high school journalists. (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)

Provides tips on how to improve yearbook copy by using the writing techniques of new journalism. (RB)

Authors Woodward and Bernstein talk with an eminent historian about investigative reporting and its place in the formulation of history. (Editor)

Describes a technique designed to improve the journalistic skills of high school students. (RB)

Claiming that literary newswriting is not a contradiction in terms, that is, an oxymoron, this essay examines some of the criteria against which literary newswriting can be measured, defines what constitutes literary newswriting in contemporary newspapers, and explains how it contributes to modern newswriting. The paper argues that (1) modern…

The New Journalism, which uses literary techniques usually restricted to fiction, has been categorized and analyzed from a number of perspectives, but little effort has been made to delineate its intellectual and philosophical roots. The New Journalism arose from the intellectual tradition of Romanticism, as opposed to Classicism, the movement…

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)

Herbert L. Matthews, a veteran journalist for the "New York Times," traveled to Cuba in 1957 to interview Fidel Castro, then a revolutionary seeking the overthrow of the Batista regime. This monograph considers the impact of Matthews' newspaper articles about those interviews and of his subsequent articles about the Cuban situation and…