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Where's all the "new" journalism today?
I'm a J-school student who has been reading a lot of classic literary journalism lately as a reprieve from my daily news consumption regimen. I've been having a ton of fun reading Didion, Mailer, Thompson, Wolfe, Rosenbaum, Orwell (I had read his novels but not nonfiction), Gary Smith, McPhee and others. But I feel like this style has really fallen out of favor.
Is anyone today doing that type of reportage or has it gone with the times? Clearly magazines are still putting out great longform reportage on important and fascinating subjects, but it's been hard for me to find the immersive, literary qualities of the aforementioned writers.
Any recommendations for contemporary writers doing "new" journalism?
u/Disastrous-Milk5732 — 6 days ago