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Topic: Narrative journalism

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	ASNE - The narrative tool
		Narrative is the next best thing, because it allows us to live vicariously the experience of others.
		The last golden age of news narrative was the late 1960s and the early 1970s, when we were reorienting ourselves to a world undergoing revolution in every aspect, from civil rights to environment to sexual behavior.
		Narrative journalism, like literature of any sort, must contain a kernel of vision, of insight â” this is the literary counterpart to a news peg.
	www.asne.org /kiosk/editor/98.octnov/franklin1.htm (576 words)

	Fiction, facts and storytelling
		Narrative journalism hightlights some conventional differences between literature and journalism which are important to address for anyone taking up the challenges of narrative reporting.
		In journalism the creative narrative techniques are used on the frame of the story or in the introduction that leads into the main story whilst the story itself is presented as a summary or direct quotes.
		Journalism must – whether it is narrative or not – put a perspective on principal issues in contemporary society and if you give up on that expectation you might as well give up on the demand for truth because then there is no point in demanding that the articles should be well researched and documented.
	www.cfje.dk /cfje/vidbase.nsf/id/cb00959449 (3151 words)

	AJR - When to Go Long
		The narrative story is of value only when we want to take the reader deep into a story and when we have something profound to say.
		Journalism is behind every other industry I know about in serious on-the-job training, and when the meager training dollar is allotted it tends to go toward teaching new technology or financing remedial studies.
		Narrative journalism is good for newspapers, good for readers and good for writers' careers.
	www.ajr.org /article_printable.asp?id=1335 (2635 words)

	Narrative Journalism Conference Celebrates the Flowering of a Literary Genre
		Rosenbaum, who participated with other contemporary writers, reporters, editors and literary agents in a two-day conference on the tradition of narrative journalism, said he believes that the literary genre - inspired by the writings of Tom Wolfe and the "New Journalists" - is still rocking the boat of conventional ideas.
		Kramer described the tradition of narrative journalism as an essential element for understanding the complications of the modern world.
		Many of the panelists said they began their careers writing for newspapers or magazines, and eventually adopted the style of narrative journalism as a more effective means of capturing the full picture of life.
	www.bu.edu /com/MUCKRAKER/mar98/dumpertnarrative.html (730 words)

	PressThink: PressThink Basics: The Master Narrative in Journalism
		Any of these suppositions could become the master narrative for campaign reporting in a given setting, (and there are many more possible, as many as there are settings) but the longer “winning the race” hangs around, the more natural the thing seems— not an editorial invention at all but more like reality itself.
		They are components of a journalistic master narrative built around two principle story lines: the search for the candidates’ character flaws, and the depiction of the campaign as a horserace, full of ploys and surprises, tenacity and treachery, rising action and falling action, winners and losers.
		Journalism Is Itself a Religion: "We're headed, I think, for schism, tumult and divide as the religion of the American press meets the upheavals in global politics and public media that are well underway.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2003/09/08/basics_master.html (7103 words)

	What Is Narrative?
		When the program was new, I suggested, in jest, that we should call ourselves The Nieman Program for "Contactful" Journalism: journalism that doesn't assume the reader is a robot, that acknowledges the reader knows lots and feels and snickers and gets wild.
		Narrative is about people doing stuff and, to some extent and in the right places, must reach past civic traits if it is to cover real folks' real stories well.
		This is the very essence of narrative construction: the I-beams of narrative on which all else leans.
	www.nieman.harvard.edu /narrative/what_is.html (432 words)

	projects.html
		Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences is thus designed to have broad, cross-disciplinary appeal, aimed as much at students and scholars in the social sciences as humanists, cultural theorists, and specialists in narrative fiction.
		Developing a broad interpretation of narrative as a discourse genre and a cognitive style, as well as a resource for literary writing, the book begins from the premise that stories have emerged from humans' shared attempts to make sense of and manage the complexities of experience.
		Narratives not only have a logic but also are a logic in their own right, providing an unreplaceable resource for structuring and comprehending experience, a distinctive way of coming to terms with time, process, change.
	people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /herman145/projects.html (815 words)

	In the Agora: Erin Texeira and the Narrative Journalism Movement
		Texeira is a member of the "narrative journalism movement" which seeks to report through stories and narratives.
		Narrative is acceptable and can be quite powerful, but if we're going to label them "news," such stories must still be supported by objective facts.
		Erin once wrote that she is "of brown skin" and her racial identity is "complicated." But her racial confusion should not manifest itself in confusing "news articles" that are simply powerful narratives.
	www.intheagora.com /archives/2005/11/erin_texeira_an.html (650 words)

	Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
		Maria Carrillo is the narrative editor at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. She directs most of the paper's narrative projects and oversees seven writers, including four on a narrative team.
		He also is a visiting professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Hong Kong and for six years was a lecturer in ethics at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
		The newspaper has published a number of narrative pieces including a Sunday package on a 6-year-old boy who was killed by a repeat drunken driver; a story about five alumni of a local high school, class of 1960, all of whom had organ transplants; and a profile on one of Madison's most innovative chefs.
	www.nieman.harvard.edu /events/conferences/narrative2003/bios.html (6887 words)

	South Asian Media Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There should not be any confusion that narrative journalism too deals with news and it's not a fiction anyway, she added.
		A distinctive aspect of new journalism is that it broke away from obsession with objectivity in conventional journalism, placing emphasis on subjectivity in reporting and other genres of journalism, she said.
		That new journalism has gained popularity today is due to different shortcomings of the conventional journalism as readers today long for in-depth reports with vivid details, said Dr Ahaduzzaman M Ali, a professor of journalism at Dhaka University.
	www.southasianmedia.net /cnn.cfm?id=224219&category=Services&Country=BANGLADESH (369 words)

	Joho the Blog: Journalism's Master Narrative
		The notion that narrative drives and taints perception is valid (Morita Shoma: "It is amazing how different the world looks when we have changed"), but this is not the propaganda machine, it's the self-narrative (this is why NLP is effective therapy) the perspective of the perceiver interpreted within their language, set and setting.
		I'm hardly saying that the master narrative affects everyone but me. The fact that political reports are so often in the form of sports reports (horse racing often but not only) isn't some breakthrough insight that's new in the universe.
		I can't say for political journalism, but I have seen first hand from the inside that this is how advertising ends up saying such strange things; it's a random walk by a blind watchmaker, fumbling in the dark until the ratings go up.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/001977.html (3377 words)

	Joho the Blog: Journalism's Master Narrative
		Jay Rosen's posted a brilliant piece on the role of the "master narrative" in political reporting.
		Politics gets reported as a horse race not because candidates are horses in a race but because that's the narrative form we've created and accepted.
		Narratives area how we understand, not an obstacle to understanding.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/001970.html (289 words)

	The Narrative Journal
		His essay “The New Journalism” was the manifesto for a new style designed to fill the cultural vacuum that he said novelists had left by abandoning realistic fiction.
		Here’s the analogy: If a piece of narrative journalism was a movie, the scenes and details would be the frames of film, the pictures that everyone focuses on.
		Sometimes, she said, in science journalism, the answer to the question, “What is the implication of this?” is just that.
	poynter.blogs.com /narrative (8626 words)

	Muckraker - Boston University Department of Journalism
		Often referred to as the New Journalism, narrative journalism is hardly that.
		Narrative pieces delve further into human emotions than traditional hard-nosed journalism, and often transcend the venerable 5 W's of reporting.
		By assembling the genre's top practitioners to discuss their craft and techniques, Aboard The Narrative Train seeks to further validate the role of narrative in the popular media.
	www.bu.edu /com/muckraker/oct00/narrative3.html (497 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Journalism conference looks at truth, lies, and narrative
		The Nieman Foundation's annual conference is devoted to storytelling, or narrative.
		Bingham said reliance on official sources meant that even though Iraqis stood at the prison gates with tales of prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib months before the stories were disseminated by the press, it was only when American soldiers produced photos that reporters began to take the news seriously.
		Veteran narrative journalism coach Roy Peter Clark from The Poynter Institute traced the evolving role of the journalist in wartime from World War II to Vietnam.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/12.09/11-nieman.html (1202 words)

	CJR - Tell it Long, Take Your Time, Go in Depth, by Steve Weinberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Immersion/narrative journalism had taken something of a back seat to fact-driven exposs, but it was not absent.
		Carroll and Marimow are so certain that their brand of long-form journalism is good business that they are building reporting and editing staffs to do more of it.
		Acornerstone of this journalism trend is an emphasis on noncelebrities.
	archives.cjr.org /year/98/1/long.asp (3310 words)

	The Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog
		[N]arrative has powers to grip readers and lead them far beyond mere cliffhanging through the richest sorts of reporting -- narrative journalism has proved to be effective for organizing complex material around human stories...
		And it was William Zinsser who first opened my eyes to the power of narrative journalism, first with his superb jazz epic Mitchell & Ruff: An American Profile in Jazz, and then with his How-To books On Writing Well and Writing to Learn (essentially a handbook on Science Writing).
	www.microcontentnews.com /entries/20021130-2200.htm (611 words)

	Poynter Online: Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Recently a group of distinguished storytellers traveled to Cambridge, Mass., to coach their peers in the craft, the professional challenges, and the ethical considerations of narrative journalism.
		These letters are the first fruits of the workshop, from which more and better narrative writing may flow.
		"The second stage of narrative journalism involves finding useful and comfortable ways in-house of adjusting to the uneven scheduling of narrative writers' time, finding space, finding and assigning flexibly the attention of those editors who can best handle this special copy.
	legacy.poynter.org /nww/nieman (500 words)

	Narrative Psychology: Documentary Studies, Journalism, and Non-Fiction
		The form by which observations are interpreted often assumes a strongly narrative character (Coles, 1998) while the results of these interpretative processes may be shared by using various media, e.g., via writing, film or videotape, photography or sound recording.
		Closely allied with documentarians is the work of journalists who report the news of the world by "finding the story" or those narratives which account for the details uncovered in their investigations.
		This text draws deeply upon contemporary understandings of narrative (particularly in its middle and closing chapters) in developing approaches to the use of life documents within social science.
	web.lemoyne.edu /~hevern/nr-journal.html (1912 words)

	American Journalism Review
		Meticulous, exhaustive reporting is as essential to compelling narrative journalism as sparkling prose.
		Narrative journalism, intimate journalism and new journalism have all been used interchangeably to describe it.
		But DeSilva warns that too many reporters making the jump into narrative journalism fill their stories with minutiae about a person crossing his legs or parting her hair a certain way.
	www.ajr.org /article.asp?id=210 (3372 words)

	Poynter Online: Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Throughout his presentation, Gay did not pontificate about the gloriousness of journalism in his time to the younger generation of reporters who crowded the hall to listen to him.
		This early exposure fired the curiosity of Gay and was later to define his approach to journalism.
		Bad News" and sought from him the reaction of prominent personalities to him once they knew he was updating their files for useful materials on their deaths.
	www.poynterextra.org /nww/nieman/talese_dailyjournalists.htm (653 words)

	Narrative Journalism Conference
		Narrative journalism is the heir of the great tradition of reporting and writing pioneered by the newspaper serials of, among others, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.
		Narrative journalism requires factual reporting according to strict rules of journalism ethics.
		Such work is not limited to presenting quantifiable facts, (Mr X died at 8.13am this morning); it also relates the events that converge to make the facts relevant (perhaps the murder of Mr X illustrates the dynamics of violence in the region, for example).
	www.bizcommunity.com /Event.aspx?c=15&l=196&ei=2649 (449 words)

	Speech: Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference, 11/10/02
		And on a very important economic issue facing our country, most people think in ways that would be viewed by experts in the field as paralleling those who think about biology in creationist terms or those who think about chemistry in terms of alchemy, or think about astronomy in terms of astrology.
		It's not because you all are part of, or journalism is part of, any kind of conspiracy to mislead the public.
		But it seems to me it should be a function of sessions like this to help develop ways of putting into equally gripping and narrative forms ideas that while complex, and perhaps less immediately adaptable to the narrative of form, nonetheless are true and important for people to understand.
	www.president.harvard.edu /speeches/2002/nieman.html (1532 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Tellers of tale talk at Nieman narrative conference
		Collectively, the speakers lay claim to centuries of experience in journalism and have covered everything from gender differences and drag car racing to genocide and race relations.
		They convened to share their narrative know-how with nearly 1,000 attendees, an assembly that represented every medium of journalism, every American state, and not a few foreign nations as far flung as Denmark, Spain, Ghana, and the Philippines.
		Those are key things for those of us practicing journalism," said Susan Richardson, a 2003 Nieman Fellow from the Austin American-Statesman who's currently getting her master's degree at the Kennedy School of Government.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/12.11/09-nieman.html (1085 words)

	Quinnipiac University \| Finding Nieman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Journalism grad student Michael Ogundimu listens to a speaker at the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism last weekend in Cambridge, Mass.
		Five graduate journalism students learned that how you write an article is as important as the information in it, at a conference on narrative journalism last weekend in Cambridge, Mass.
		Paul Steinle brought the students in his online class "The Story in Journalism" to the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, where dozens of professional writers shared tips and strategies to add a dramatic feel to nonfiction writing.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /x9201.xml (410 words)

	Writing history: Capote's novel has lasting effect on journalism \| LJWorld.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Madeleine Blais teaches Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" in journalism classes because it is compelling and beautiful, she said, a masterpiece.
		But, with "In Cold Blood" about to turn 40 years old, those leading the movement once known as "new journalism" agree that the book deserves to be remembered for its contributions to the genre as well as for its faults.
		Journalism is the most underestimated, the least explored of literary mediums," Capote said in a 1966 interview with The New York Times.
	www.ljworld.com /section/incoldblood/story/200856 (1674 words)

	Analysis: Current activities at Centre for Journalism and Further Education
		In order to increase the levels of knowledge and insight into journalism and stimulate debate about professional issues, CFJE publishes research, analysis and teaching materials about journalism on the web as well as in print.
		Over time the ambition is that the database will become an encyclopedia of journalism where terms and concepts are validated by a panel of experts in journalism, photography, and other editorial functions.
		The first topics which have been extensively covered in the database are the journalistic interview, narrative techniques and storytelling in journalism, and local journalism.
	www.cfje.dk /cfje/VidBase.nsf/ID/CB00174809 (488 words)

	jfranklin cv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The story highlighted significant strides being made in the treatment of stroke; it focused on the dramatic story of a woman who experienced a massive stroke and survived, apparently as a consequence of a new therapy that involved chilling her body for several days.
		Two part narrative series in the Raleigh News and Observer: The story of a young psychiatrist following in her dead father’s footsteps illustrates a half-century’s swing in psychiatric thought.
		Single part narrative in the Raleigh News and Observer: This story, set in the Duke University Primate Laboratory, explores the psychological similarities betweens humans and prosimians by showing how the keepers react to the death of a lemur.
	www.journalism.umd.edu /faculty/jfranklin/cv.html (3622 words)

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