Comments on: Narrative journalism’s future: fighting words in some places

By: Telling True Stories: Finding a Story « Spicyjoefitz's Blog

Telling True Stories: Finding a Story « Spicyjoefitz's Blog — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:19:16 +0000

[...] The threat of narrative journalism I think Degregory’s passage speaks of the most influential type of journalism—the reporting of immersion, a story that somehow depends upon your presence in it (although not explicitly). There are many ways to tell a story, and a story is based on facts, but in many ways it is the essence of these facts that truly make a story-a passage into someone else’s life, effective. [...]

By: Andrea Pitzer

Andrea Pitzer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:20:34 +0000

Thanks for the copy edit, J.Z. I’ve corrected it in the original post.

By: J.Z.

J.Z. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:51:30 +0000

The Kolbert series you mention was originally published in The New Yorker, not The New York Times.

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:53:15 +0000

Gotta have trhe career path in there. I fear the model that advertisers see for journalism is trade journalism; there ain’t a lot of narratve there. Not to be a vulgar marxist about it, but the hammering is on in the economist’s smithy and I’m not sure we can divorce the dollars from any discussion of narrative journalism’s future.