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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Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

The Institute of Media, Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Gdańsk is the Host of IALJS-17

The Institute of Media, Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Gdańsk will host this year’s IALJS-17 in May. It is one of the 6 institutes that make up the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Institute of Media, Journalism and Social Communication stands out from the rest with its hands-on approach to research and…

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Kaliksta Bucholc

President’s Column: Gdansk Conference Update

Spring has arrived in Gdańsk and that means it’s less than two months until the participants in the Seventeenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS -17) will be arriving too. Conference organizers are putting the finishing touches on a full program which promises to be a worthy successor to our successful meetings in Santiago…

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Rob Alexander

Looking for Uncle Tom’s Cabin

I live in Natchitoches, Louisiana, in the parish of the same name; in Louisiana, we have parishes and not counties. After my landlord and neighbor gave me a copy of a little travelogue published in 1892 titled A Visit to Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Daniel B. Corley, a judge and former mayor of Abilene, Texas, I went looking…

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Brian Gabrial

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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Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

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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Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

Reporter with notepad

Against Split Personality Pedagogy

Teaching literary journalism reporting techniques across the journalism curriculum *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 13, no. 2 (2019). If you’re reading this article, you’re likely already engaged in the teaching and study of literary journalism. But you probably also teach classes other than literary journalism,…

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Lisa A. Phillips

Literary Journalism In Fin-De-Siècle Vienna

A cultural tradition of newspapers. *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 12, no. 2 (2018).  Newspapers may not be the first cultural output that springs to mind in connection with Vienna, a city best known for its artistic and intellectual accomplishments over the last century. Instead,…

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Kate McQueen

IALJS at AEJMC Detroit Held in Person

Panelists convened to discuss nonfiction ethics and literary aesthetics After two consecutive years online, IALJS sessions at the annual AEJMC meeting took place in person. Detroit, Michigan was the site of this year’s conference, which featured two full sessions on August 3 dedicated to the theme of “Narrative Journalism Across Media: Nonfiction Ethics and Literary…

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David O. Dowling

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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Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

CfP: The Art of Fact in Science and Nature Writing Session, IALJS at AEJMC 2023

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 7–10, 2023 Washington, D.C., USA The Art of Fact in Science and Nature Writing In the age of COVID-19 and climate change, science…

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Kate McQueen

Literary Journalism in Twentieth Century Turkey

Literary journalism in twentieth century Turkey can be divided into two periods: pre-1950, when the first reportages were published, and post-1950. After 1950, examples of direct literary journalism began to proliferate. There are about fifteen direct literary journalism examples in this century ranging in topic from adventure to torturing. Some of these studies are: Ben…

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Ömer Özer