Asia Pacific Media Educator
Editor's Note: Journalism and world making moments
Abstract
In my original call for papers for this special issue on Narrative Journalism I
suggested: “Today’s newspapers and magazines present an array of different news
and feature styles that have taken journalism away from the traditional inverted
pyramid approach that is still the mainstay of most journalism courses”.
This prompted one spirited email exchange with an academic who took umbrage at
what she regarded as the untested assumptions in that statement. “How do you know
this?” she asked. “I hope proposals tackle your assumptions as well as your topic!”
Thirty-five years after Tom Woolfe’s “New Journalism” manifesto, the idea that there
might be something new happening in journalism, or that perhaps our approach to
journalism education may not be new enough, still has the power to rankle.
Certainly a number of the papers gathered here provide a context for that original
statement and begin to provide some research data that helps to clarify the extent of
the “narrative turn” in journalism and journalism education.
Citation
O'Donnell, M.
(2007)
"Editor's Note: Journalism and world making moments,"
Asia Pacific Media Educator:
: Iss. 18, Article 1.
Available at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/apme/vol1/iss18/1
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