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The New, Old Journalism: Narrative Writing In Contemporary Newspapers, Jane Johnston, Caroline Graham
The New, Old Journalism: Narrative Writing In Contemporary Newspapers, Jane Johnston, Caroline Graham
Caroline Graham
While there is a significant literature on the rise of narrative journalism in daily newspapers, mostly from the United States, few studies have investigated the breakdown of newswriting styles in the front end of the newspaper, with a specific focus on the use of narrative techniques. This study investigates the writing styles of two daily metropolitan print newspapers in order to provide some concrete data on narrative news reporting in Australia. In a sense, it responds to Mark Kramer's comment in 2000 that “no one has added up the reallocated column inches to quantify this change.” The research analyses 5000 …