Narative journalism in the contemporary newsroom

Abstract

This study examines the journalistic discourse in American trade publications toward a storytelling format, competitive in contemporary daily papers, which has long been considered as not appropriate for objective news writing. Thomas Kuhn's concept of 'paradigm' was employed in examining and analyzing narrative discourse in trade journals. The outcome of text-analysis revealed that assenters in narrative news writing outnumbered the dissenters; narrative upholders have vividly attempted to construct a friendly perspective toward a storytelling format by eulogizing the prose style, battering the old form of news production, and distancing the previous literary movement from contemporary narrative news writing. The author concludes that the change of journalistic perception toward the narrative style documents the hierarchical relationship between the occupational ideology and the market ideology within which the journalistic paradigm of news writing can be modified and replaced when the established one -the inverted pyramid news writing -fails to satisfy the concerns of the media industry.

Design Space para Jornalismo de Dados

“…Historicamente, as análises sobre as confluências entre jornalismo e narrativas ou storytelling sempre tiveram divergências, dificultando a formação de referenciais teóricos para o tema (Groot Kormelink & Costera Meijer, 2015). A despeito disso, a aplicação de estilos narrativos em diversos formatos noticiosos são tendência nas práticas do jornalismo contemporâneo (Shim, 2014;Groot Kormelink & Costera Meijer, 2015) e, entre idas e vindas, são utilizados nos formatos noticiosos desde o século XVIII, com o surgimento do Jornalismo Literário (Kerrane & Yagoda, 1998;Jacobson, Marino & Gutsche, 2016 125 devido a oposiçõesque os autores entendem como refutáveisde espaços discursivos. De um lado, a noção de que notícias e reportagens devem ser objetivas e tratar apenas de fatos, sem o menor sinal de aspectos relacionados a experiências, emoções e vida privada e cotidiana; de outro, radical negação à percepção, considerada ultrapassada, de que jornalismo seria primariamente caracterizado por objetividade, imparcialidade e representação acurada da realidade.…”

Getting Youngsters Hooked on News

“…Rooted in their different preferences, different generations develop different media use habits (Lee and Delli Carpini 2010). For instance, young people are more used to getting news from digital platforms, where they are more likely to encounter novel forms of journalism, such as narrative news styles (Høyer and Nossen 2015;Johnston 2007;Kramer 2000;Shim 2014;Ytreberg 2001). Furthermore, as youngsters want news to be more than just GETTING YOUNGSTERS HOOKED ON NEWS 2113 informative, they consume relatively little "serious" news while also making up the largest part of comedy news program audiences (Pew Research Center 2012).…”

“…One up and coming strategy to achieve this is the application of narrative structure in news stories (Abrahamson 2006;Høyer and Nossen 2015;Johnston 2007;Shim 2014;Ytreberg 2001). This involves presenting a news report in a storytelling format.…”

Multimedia Storytelling in Journalism: Exploring Narrative Techniques in Snow Fall

“…The concept of storytelling in the domain of journalism is a topic of current and widespread interest, reflected in a growing number of newsrooms embracing narrative formats to deliver their news content [1]. The use of storytelling techniques to report upon news events is, however, by no means a recent innovation.…”

“…The interest in the genre is often explained by the highly competitive market, characterized by the 24/7 access to free online news, which has forced journalists and editors alike to search for ways to attract the audience's attention and engage them personally [1,5]. Telling stories that are both true and enthralling is often seen as an important strategy to achieve these goals.…”