LITERARY

JOURNALISM
Reporters Telling
Stories
•News is a story and
journalists are the
“professional storytellers
of our age”
Bell,1994
• Uses storytelling techniques
to bring those facts to life in
the reader’s imagination.
-Richard Nordquist

• Literary Journalism is a form of

non-fiction that combines
factual reporting with some of
the narrative techniques and
stylistic strategies traditionally
associated with fiction.
•A literary journalist
recreates a news event as
if the readers were
reading a short story or a
novel.
Long-form Journalism
• Feature Article
• Reportage
• Personality Profile
Feature Story

• You must combine the rigors of

factual reporting with the
creative freedom of short-story
writing.
• Often longer than a traditional
news story.
Reportage

• Also known as eyewitness

account.
• It has visual and photographic
origin of the term or the use of
photo documentary.(Houghton,
2007)
Personality Profile
• Portrayal of what is the most
interesting or compelling about that
person is now.
• Whatever the focal point of person’s
life, the writer uses information from
the interview to capture a captivating
profile.
Literary
Journalism
Critiquing and
Writing
• This genre requires you to step in to
the world in order to investigate facts
about the subject and report those
facts in narrative form.
• Requires the reporting the facts
surrounding the subject(what, where,
who, when, why, and how).
News and Stories
• We often relate to news in the same
way as we read a novel or watch a
movie. They all convey stories in our
mind.
• News is not only about transmitted
facts and information. It is stories that
mirror our socially shared life.
Types of Stories
• Triumph against evil
• Triumph against personal misfortune
• Reversal fortune
• Romantic love
• Rags to riches
Reporting and Narrative Elements
• Narrative Elements. Go to a place you
can visit more than once. Aim for a
person you can talk to and observe
thoroughly his or her daily life. See what
emerges in terms of the following
narrative elements” plot, characters,
setting, theme, conflict and resolution.