Long-Form Journalism

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The so-called “New Journalists” have thrived ever since the iconoclastic 1960s, their chief impact on the field of journalism being to write fact-based journalism that reads like fiction. We will study and practice the novelistic techniques of this sort of journalism, including narrative storytelling, dramatic arcs, structural cliffhangers, shifting points of view, author’s voice, and dialogue as action. To learn more about this course, visit the Creative Writing Program at https://creative.writing.upenn.edu.