Restorative narrative as contextual journalistic reporting

Abstract

Restorative narrative, a recently termed contextual news form, reports on the responses of communities and individuals in the wake of traumatic events or systemic dysfunction. Through textual analysis of restorative narrative reporting and in-depth interviews with the corresponding journalists, this research seeks to understand how restorative narrative fits into the landscape of modern journalistic reporting.

Dissecting Automated News Production From a Transdisciplinary Perspective: Methodology, Linguistic Application, and Narrative Genres

“…The restorative narrative normally offers the meaningful progress of news events and the longer-term effects on individuals and communities. It gives the prominence of recovery, restoration and resilience to automated news narratives, to balance the relationship between the immediacy of reporting breaking news, the capability of accelerating news production routines, and the sustainability of news reporting, particularly in the wake of traumatic events and systemic dysfunction (Dahmen, 2019).…”

Restorative Narratives

“…The restorative narrative approach has gained recent attention from journalists (DeJarnette, 2016; Tenore, 2015) and some researchers (Dahmen, 2016(Dahmen, , 2019Fitzgerald et al, 2020). However, very few studies have examined the mechanisms and effects of restorative narratives experimentally (but see Fitzgerald et al, 2020).…”