Elements
“Basically a fancy term for whatever it is you use to hold all of the pieces of your story together.”
What is a narrative thread?
Rather than rely on second-hand accounts and background information, Wolfe considers it necessary for the journalist to witness events first hand, and to recreate them for the reader.
What is scene-by-scene construction?
In writing, little or no noticeable figuration, and avoids excessively elaborate sentence-structures.
What is the plain style?
Hazlitt argued that this new form of the essay – of seeing and revealing the world – began with a French essayist.
Who was Montaigne?
The introduction of new ways of doing journalism.
What is the imposition of new forms?
Intimate details of environment and characters.
What are status details?
Hapgood held that in doing journalism the writer must a key figure to interview.
What is the “expressive individual” or “expressive personality"?
Ornate style that often consists of heavy figuration.
What is the grand style?
Truman Capote said he never did this while reporting because his memory was that good.
What is taking notes?
Lincoln Steffens’ literary approach to journalism.
What is the story model?
A conversation between two or more people in which journalist reports not just words but defines and establishes character.
What is dialogue?
Rashomon is an example of this method
What is the Synoptic Method?
How literary journalism reveals the troubles and tribulations of complex and often marginalized lives.
What is All Pain Is Anecdotal?
He wrote a piece of literary journalism about a battle without ever visiting the scene.
Who was Walt Whitman?
William Randolph Hearst’s yellow journalism was participatory and acted as advocate and change agent.
What is “journalism of action”?
This is an example: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
What is rhythm and pacing?
Hutchins Hapgood promoted this new way of doing journalism in the early 20th century.
What is the interview?
Hersey’s legend on the license.
What is “None of this is made up”?
He wrote about a year-long plague that occurred five years before he was born.
Who was Daniel Defoe?
This journalism model is a “detached, impartial, yet authoritative treatment of the news.”
What is the Information Model?
Specificity of Concrete Detail.
What is description?
The structure of a work grows naturally from the author’s subject.
What is organic form?
Hunter S. Thompson gave birth to this style of journalism.
What is Gonzo?
This early celebrity journalist brought together two subjects who disliked each other so he could write about the confrontation.
Who was James Boswell?
A form of journalism in which the most important information goes at the top of story.
What is the inverted pyramid?