Literary Journalism

Bowden, Mark and Peter Tobia. Philadelphia Inquirer's Blackhawk Down Web.
This nonfiction series consists of the daily reports from Somalia in 1997, and are still available on the web. They use techniques for integrating video, audio, and photographs to suggest a convergence of literary journalism and the web.

Boynton, Robert S. "Drilling Into the Bedrock of Ordinary Experience." Chronicle of Higher Education 4 Mar. 2005: B10-B11. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Otterbein College Library. <search.ebscohost.com>.
Focuses on the implications of the emergence of the New Journalists for the tradition of literary journalism in the U.S. and the effect of new journalism on the literary community.

Franklin, Jon "Myths of Literary Journalism: A Practitioners Perspective." Journalism Educator 42.3 (1987): 8-13. Communication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Otterbein College Library. <search.ebscohost.com>.
A report on the role of literary forms in journalism, historically, and as a threat to objectivity and honesty.

Marsh, Charles. "Deeper Than the Fictional Model: Structural Origins of Literary Journalism in Greek Tragedy and Aristotle's 'Poetics'." in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. (2003): 441-465. ERIC. EBSCO. Otterbein College Library. <search.ebscohost.com>.
The narrative structure of literary journalism is compared to the "literary transformation" or "displacement" observed in Greek Tragic Drama.

Hartsock, John C. "The Critical Marginalization of American Literary Journalism." Critical Studies in Mass Communication. 15.1 (1998): 61-84. Communication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Otterbein College Library. <search.ebscohost.com>.
Examines the historical disregard and ambivalence for literary journalism within scholarly circles.

Kerrane, Kevin and Ben Yagoda, eds. The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism.
PN6014 .A76 1997
An anthology of literary journalism from Defoe to the present day.

Mills, Nicholas. The New Journalism: A Historical Anthology.
PN4726 .M5
Forty examples of "new journalism" are distinguished from traditional journalism by the inclusion of the writer's relationship to the event being described. Describing the scene of an experience may borrow from fiction writing techniques.

Royal, Cindy and James W. Tankard Jr. "Literary Journalism Techniques Create Compelling Blackhawk Down Web Site" Newspaper Research Journal 25.4 (2004): 82-88. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Otterbein College Library. <search.ebscohost.com>.
Is the Philadelphia Inquirer's Blackhawk Down web site a new form of literary journalism?

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