3.6 literary journalism

Norman Sims was a literary journalist. He wrote a book called The Literary Journalists as well. Norman Sims realized that the change in journalism came about as writers began to see the private lives rather than the dominant institutions as sources of information. Norman Sims thought up 5 characteristics of literary journalism. They were Immersion which states that literary journalists invest a great deal of time and effort learning about their subject. Then there is structure which states that there is a portion of the story where it is purposley placed to affect the meaning the reader constructs as he or she engage with the story. Another characteristic stated was Accuracy. This states that dialogue must be accurate when speaking in quotation. The information in the story should be accurate as well. The voice states that no one voice defines contemporary literary journalism. There can be many different voices such as first person or third person. The last characteristic is Responsibility. Every journalist has the responsibility of writing their story correctly following the code of ethics.