Good Places to Start Examining Scholarship on Narrative Journalism
- John C. Hartsock, “Literary Reportage: The ‘Other’ Literary Journalism,” Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 113-134.
- Josh Roiland, “By Any Other Name: The Case for Literary Journalism,” Literary Journalism Studies 7 (Fall 2015), 61-89.
- John Hersey, “The Legend on the License” , in the Yale Review (1980)
- Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (U. Massachusetts Press, 2023).
- Mark Kramer, “Narrative Journalism Comes of Age,” Nieman Reports
- Mark Kramer, “Breakable Rules for Literary Journalists,” Nieman Storyboard
- John Pauly, “The New Journalism and the Struggle for Interpretation,” Journalism 15 (5) 2014: 589-603.
- Charles Siefe, on why journalists don’t have to respect Internal Review Boards (sometimes called “Human Subject Reviews”)–see the folder on editors’ and authors’ statements on method.
Helpful theoretically-inclined, Overview Articles or specific instances of Narrative Journalism
- Mark Broersma, “The Unbearable Limitations of Journalism,” The International Communication Gazette. 72 (1) 2010: 21-33.
- Megan Le Masurier, “What is Slow Journalism?” Journalism Practice 9(2) 2015: 138-52.
- Lad Tobin,”Gay Talese Has a Secret,” Fourth Genre 12 (Fall 2010): 135-45.
- Franny Nudelman, “‘Marked for Demolition’: Mary McCarthy’s Vietnam Journalism,” American Literature 85 (2013): 363-87.
- Dow, William. “The Center and Beyond: The Expansion of Literary Journalism Studies.” Revista Famecos: Midia, cultura e technologia 23(2016) at http://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistafamecos/issue/v…
- David Dowling, “The Business of Slow Journalism,” Digital Journalism (2016): 530-46.