Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, Author at IALJS: The International Association for Literary Journalism Studies

CFP: Proposed Volume on Literary Journalism/Creative Nonfiction in East-Central Europe

Abstracts are invited for a proposed collection on Literary Journalism/Creative Non-Fiction in East-Central Europe. The volume takes as its central concern the current shapes and forms of what is variously called literary journalism, creative non-fiction, creative documentary narrative, or reportage (among other terms) in the region. We have already received preliminary interest from an academic…

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Second Call: Join Us in Creating an Interactive Map of Global Literary Journalism

Authors’ Note: We have received some great responses, and we’re beginning the process of compiling our bibliography. In the meantime, we’d like to renew our call for your help in moving this project forward. Thanks! Manuel Carvalho Coutinho and I (Fitz) are currently embarking on an ambitious project and we need your help! We are…

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Join Us in Creating an Interactive Map of Global Literary Journalism

Manuel Carvalho Coutinho and I (Fitz) are currently embarking on an ambitious project and we need your help! We are putting together a list of works of literary journalism from around the world with the objective of creating a database and, later on, an interactive world map that would be freely accessed to anyone interested…

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Marvelous Views and Heroic History: Welcome to Gdańsk

By Anna Merchel and Aleksandra Wierzbowska Welcome to the city of Gdańsk – the fourth largest metropolitan area in Poland with 262 km2 located on the Baltic coast in the northern part of the country. Gdańsk is a city with a history dating back more than a thousand years and breathtaking places worth every minute of…

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Literary Journalism Welcomes a New Editor

What’s in store for the IALJS newsletter in 2023 Literary Journalism, the newsletter of the IALJS, is excited to welcome a new lead editor to its pages — Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. Fitz, as most people call him, has been an IALJS member since 2017, when he was a PhD student at Northeastern University in Boston,…

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The Rapid Media Change Theory of the History of American Literary Journalism

Literary journalism emerges during times of rapid media change This essay is excerpted and adapted from Jonathan D. Fitzgerald’s forthcoming book How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, July 2023). When I was in graduate school and beginning to approach the field of literary journalism studies, I was…

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In Memoriam, Norman Sims

The field of literary journalism studies lost a giant this year The field of literary journalism studies lost a giant on Sunday, May 15, 2022. Norman Sims (1948-2022), a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is widely acknowledged as the founder of the field. His three edited volumes as well as…

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CFP: Narrative Journalism Across Media: Nonfiction Ethics and Literary Aesthetics

Call for Panel Participants Sessions Organized by the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies To Be Held at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication August 3–6, 2022 Detroit, USA Narrative Journalism Across Media: Nonfiction Ethics and Literary Aesthetics Digital media forms increasingly provide the canvas for the most…

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