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Journalism needed a new model, which came to us through our print colleagues. It started with the Americans James Agee and John Hersey. Then came Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese and a long list of contemporary journalists who win Pulitzer Prizes. These are journalists who want to tell America the truth about itself beyond the framework of conventional objectivity.

In the printed form, this narrative journalism is sometimes called literary journalism because it demands a standard and quality of writing found only in literature. Offshoots are ethnographic or feature-travel journalism, reportage that doesn’t pretend to be objective ...

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