Narrative Reporting

Narrative reporting is something like telling stories

On 11 August, Janet Steele, an associate professor of journalism at the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, was invited by SIRD to conduct a workshop on "The Role of Media in eligious & Racial harmonious Building".

She used to said :'It is more applicable to the newspapers in the age of competition with television journalism to adopt narrative form of journalism.'

This American academic cited, narrative journalism is not going to replace the existing trends and techniques of conventional journalism altogether.

I'm confused with conventional or hard news writing with this narrative writing?

Narrative journalism got nothing too deals with news? It's a fiction way of writing?

Some said new journalism is rather narrative in form and it's not literary journalism; narrative reporting is not a marriage between fiction and journalism, it's just a form of journalism.

A distinctive aspect of new journalism is that it broke away from obsession with objectivity in conventional journalism, placing emphasis on subjectivity in reporting and other genres of journalism

Narrative journalism has moved out of the feature section to news section; writing news by telling stories.

She told participants, FOUR distinctive features of narrative journalism:
1.scene by scene description
2.extensive use of dialogues
3.multiple points of views
4.credible attention to details in reporting

I supposed though new journalism seems to be fictional, it's actually an in-depth reporting for a greater truth.

But are Malaysian journalist ready for it, especially chinese media journalist?

Traditional approach of journalism with all its superficiality and constraints cannot address all the grave problems.

The new journalism was pioneered by renowned US journalists like Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin in 1960s in the USA