Narrative journalism

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Narrative journalism (also narrative journalism ) is a journalistic genre that has a narrative pursues transmission of content to the audience.

Definition and characteristics

As a central characteristic of narrative journalism can be listed that it produces narrative texts . According to communication scientist Patrick Weber, narrative texts have "a concrete event, a spatio-temporal delimitable event, as their content, while non-narrative texts also describe static facts, can be primarily explanatory or argumentative".

Another characteristic of narrative journalism is that events are described from a very personal, subjective perspective and then processed into a story. The genre usually focuses on stories of people and their emotions that are embedded in real conditions.

distribution

In the United States, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is particularly committed to narrative journalism - it organized annual conferences on the subject between 2002 and 2009.

Otherwise, narratives are mainly found in journalistic long forms, including US print media such as The New Yorker or Rolling Stone . In online journalism , too , the term (digital) storytelling is increasingly using narrative narrative methods. The long forms of television documentarism and television magazine journalism are also increasingly being produced narrative.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Weber: Narrative Journalism , in: Deutscher Fachjournalisten-Verband (Ed.): Journalistische Genres, UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 2016, p. 322.
  2. ↑ Wilfried Köpke: Narrative journalism. Resistant in a confusing situation . In: Hans-Jörg Kapp and Friedrich Weltzien (eds.): Unruly design. Design practice and social responsibility . Reimer 2017, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-496-01583-3 , pp. 94-105 .
  3. ↑ See the comments on the DFJV Deutsches Journalistenkolleg: Narrativer Journalismus .
  4. ↑ Martin Eiermann: The Neverending Story: The future belongs to narrative journalism .
  5. ↑ Wilfried Köpke: Narrative television journalism: reception and communicator-related reasons for a journalistic reorientation . In: Annika Schach (Ed.): Storytelling - stories in text, image and film . Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15231-4 , pp. 193-203 .