Abstract

The arrival of the New Journalism has certainly changed journalism itself in every single aspect. This new movement seeks to apply narrative resources traditionally assimilated to literature of fiction; thus, creating journalistic texts with stylish and narrative quality enriching News with descriptions, dialogues, opinions and monologues. This article analyzes the characteristics of classic journalism and the New Journalism and as long as this new approach has radically renewed the current journalistic technique.

Abstract

We reflect on the concept of the Latin American chronicle from the understanding that to build it, testimonial is not enough, but that additional criteria must be taken into account from the theories of narration, literature, social psychology, anthropology symbolic and ethnography. To this are added the contributions of the journalistic-literary tendencies of the North American style, which, in turn, were nourished by the approaches of the nineteenth-century European realist novel. The result is a concept in which the chronicle is located as a genre of a creative and narrative nature, with a particular voice and tone of marked literary influence, with which the reality that is recreated -be it character, place, situation or event-, both from factors of typical interest from journalism, as from the meaningful everyday life.