Rewriting the Newspaper
The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7308765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher B Daly (Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 797-798 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaaa440 |
| OpenAlex | W3113277623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In the standard narratives, “new journalism” sprang fully formed from the head of John Hersey (“Hiroshima,” New Yorker, Aug. 24, 1946, pp. 15–18), or Gay Talese (“Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” Esquire, April 1966, pp. 89–94), or Tom Wolfe (Donal Henahan, “Vroom: The True American Hero,” New York Times, July 7, 1985, pp. 3–4) and spread like free cocaine through the American magazine trade and into a sizable portion of the book world. Writers and readers welcomed the new repertoire of reporting and storytelling techniques. Thomas R. Schmidt has revised and extended those remarks. He takes up the worthy task of showing how “new journalism” spread beyond magazines and books, eventually penetrating the highly routinized newsrooms of American newspapers. In Rewriting the Newspaper Schmidt provides a helpful sequel to the standard histories of “new journalism,” extending the story from the late 1960s to about 2000. During the
Art · HERO · Journalism · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Newspaper · Rewriting · Sociology · Storytelling · Computer Science · History · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Media Studies and Communication
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |