I remember, I saw, I knew

Journalists’ use of first-person storytelling in award-winning podcasts

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ID6441996
AuthorsJessica Pettengill (0009-0004-0595-1806, Michigan State University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume47
Issue7
Pages1341-1357
Publication date2025-05-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/01634437251338765
OpenAlexW4410409850
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited47

This study focuses on first-person storytelling in six United States, award-winning podcast series. Using grounded theory, first-person language is explored as a unique journalism practice in podcasting, its utility as both a journalistic and storytelling device, and its subversion of Westernized objectivity norms. This study’s analysis found that podcast journalists used their own lived experiences conveyed through a spectrum of journalistic storytelling devices, including reflexive narration, retrospective reporting, memory recollection, translational storytelling, community alignment, metajournalistic discourse, and eye-witnessing. By investigating podcasting’s narrative techniques and its positioning within the process of collective memory, this research sheds light on podcasting’s role in amplifying marginalized voices, examining complex social justice issues, and pushing boundaries in journalism culture in the United States

Advertising · Art · Business · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Sociology · Storytelling · Visual arts · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media

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