Insights on Literary Journalism

Kevin M. Lerner is Associate Professor of Journalism and Chair of the Department of Communication, Marist College, USA.

List of Contributors

Introduction: The Old Journalism
Kevin M. Lerner

Part I: What is Literary Journalism?

Chapter 1: What Counts as Literary Journalism?: A Case Study of The Wire
Roberta S. Maguire and Miles Maguire

Chapter 2: Fields of Activity vs. Genres in Literary Journalism: The Case of Comics Journalism in Brazil
Augusto Paim

Chapter 3: When sources become characters: definers of reality in literary journalism
Mateus Yuri Passos

Part II: Storytellers and Subjects in Literary Journalism

Chapter 4: Helping Give a Subject Their Voice: The Crafted Interview and Environmental Conservation Workers
Christina Yin

Chapter 5: Advocacy, ethics, and objectivity: How literary journalism addresses moral discomfort in the reportage of gender-based violence
Julie Wheelwright

Chapter 6: Making Their Place on the Bus: The Campaign Reportage of Nora Ephron, Gloria Steinem & Joan Didion
Lori Amber Roessner

Part III: Literary Journalism and the Public Sphere

Chapter 7: Journalists Without Borders: Paul McGeough and War Reporting from the Front
Lindsay Morton

Chapter 8: Attitudes toward Authority: Profiling Celebrity Environmentalists in Style
Christine Isager

Part IV: Literary Journalism and the Future of the Field

Chapter 9: Student Perceptions of Literary Journalism’s Potential to Promote a Liberal Education
Jeffrey C. Neely

Afterword
Bill Reynolds

Index