The resurrection of “New Journalism.” MEDIA 23 abc Book Gallery

May 18, 2018

MEDIA 23 abc Book Gallery

Featuring the literary Art of Ital Iman

The resurrection of “New Journalism.”

This literary genre uses the medium of the collage:

A gathering of found objects being words placed right in formation as to present a mental picture Of correct information, was brought back to life in the year 1981 at the rally for peace press Conference at Washington DC ‘put on’ by Stevie Wonder to cause out that Martin Luther king Birthday be a national holiday. This was same time “New Journalism” was out of vogue.

In essence New Journalism made popular by the colorful Tom Wolf.

New Journalism is the invisible thread that binds all my books with the foundation being the

Holy Book of Wonder which gives credence to “New Journalism” being spiritual and very

Technical in nature.

Unlike Tom Wolf: I never went to graduate school and I never worked for a Major news source, but my credibility teeth were cut in the year 2003 while covering the “Beltway sniper” trial, I was blogging on internet with my premier site named UNN13 (Underground News Network) traveled to Virginia commonwealth with my webmaster and obtained media Credentials and became the only independent source (Journalist) and only ‘Black’ Journalist to Cover the trial in its entirety.

As a result our coverage was picked up by the Washington Post, therefore I became a credible Journalist… from that experience was produced a Masterpiece of Journalism (Word is Bond: The trial of John Allen Muhammad) which I feel is the Epitome of “New Journalism”

What is New Journalism

Is a style of news writing and journalism, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, which uses literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. It is characterized by a subjective perspective, a literary style reminiscent of long-form non-fiction and emphasizing "truth" over "facts," and intensive reportage in which reporters immersed themselves in the stories as they reported and wrote them. This was in contrast to traditional journalism where the journalist was typically "invisible" and facts are reported as objectively as possible. The phenomenon of New Journalism is generally considered to have ended by the early 1980s.

The term was codified with its current meaning by Tom Wolfe in a 1973 collection of journalism articles he published as The New Journalism, which included works by himself, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Terry Southern, Robert Christgau, Gay Talese and others.

Articles in the New Journalism style tended not to be found in newspapers, but rather in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, CoEvolution Quarterly, Esquire, New York, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and for a short while in the early 1970s, Scanlan's Monthly.

Contemporary journalists and writers questioned the "newness" of New Journalism, as well as whether it qualified as a distinct genre. The subjective nature of New Journalism received extensive exploration; one critic suggested the genre's practitioners were functioning more as sociologists or psychoanalysts than as journalists. Criticism has been leveled at numerous individual writers in the genre, as well.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Journalism

As an active participant of the Rastafari movement and the black liberation struggle I find this method of Journalism apropos to the true meaning and sense of the word Journalism. Therefore my Books you will find in this galley are displays of information in a New Journalist format.

Ital Iman:

Member,
International Association Of Independent Journalists Inc.
http://iaij.org/8465830.html

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